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  • image SM Adam volume 12/45

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/45

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the eating room, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a semi-circular apse, ornamented with rosettes set within roundels of foil and octagonal compartments, and these are separated by festoon bands and rosettes set with wreaths. The apse is ornamented with a part-patera set within semi-circular bands of festoons and of fluting. Beyond this there is a band of rosettes set within octagonal compartments, and the ceiling is bordered with a band of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Eating room at Sir Watkin Wynn’s in S.t James’s Square / Light Grey / Light green / 45.

Signed and dated

  • December 1772
    Adelphi / 3.d Dec.r 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green and terre verte on laid paper (516 x 428)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 276
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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