[22] Alternative design for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1773, unexecuted

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    - Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/127

Purpose

[22] Alternative design for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1773, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling with a central square compartment ornamented with a rosette, and this is enclosed within a plain band and set within a band of wreaths. Beyond this there are festoons of husks enclosing paterae, drop calyx suspending oval figurative scenes, and a circular band of beading, all set within a lozenge. Beyond the lozenge there are further festoons which suspend figurative roundels set within wreaths, with aprons of scrolled hearts and drop calyx. The central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments ornamented with rosettes surrounded by calyx, and set within a band of lozenges. The lozenges are flanked by further calyx supporting anthemia

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the first Drawing room at Ashburnham House / not executed / 127

Signed and dated

April 1773
Adelphi / 10.t April 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (595 x 430)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

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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