[35] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the third drawing room, c1773, possibly executed

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    - Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
      - Preliminary design and design for a ceiling for the third drawing room, c1773, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/125

Purpose

[35] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the third drawing room, c1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling with a central compartment ornamented with a figurative oval enclosed within an oval band of foil, rosettes and calyx, and with a band of anthemia set within semi-circular-headed compartments beyond. All this is surrounded by further oval bands of rosettes, Vitruvian scroll, and a band of enclosed calyx. Beyond this there are rosettes, swags and figurative roundels. There are corner fans ornamented with part-paterae and rosettes enclosed within semi-circular-headed compartments. The central compartment is flanked by strip compartments ornamented with arabesques and rosettes, and each compartment is bordered by bands of rope moulding. The ceiling is bordered by a band of Vitruvian scroll enclosing anthemia

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Ceiling for the Room Markd A on the Plan (pencil) / Lord Ashburnham (pencil) / Center of Wind[_ _] (cropped, pencil) / Center of Wind[_ _] (cropped, pencil) / Lord Ashb[urnham] (cropped, pencil) / of Door (cropped, pencil) / [Chi]mney (cropped, pencil) / of Door (cropped, pencil) / Center of Windo[_] (cropped, pencil)

Signed and dated

c1773
c1773

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (414 x 350)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 298
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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