[36] Design for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1772, as executed

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Design for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1772, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/51

Purpose

[36] Design for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with an apse. The ceiling is ornamented with a central patera enclosed within oval bands of fluting, of anthemia and calyx, and of Vitruvian scroll. Beyond this there is an oval band of arabesques and rosettes enclosed within bands of reed and ribbon, and this is surrounded by rosettes and festoons of calyx, which are segmented by medallions set within wreaths of reed and ribbon. All this is set within an oval band of enclosed anthemia flanked by further bands of reed and ribbon. The corners of the ceiling are ornamented with festoons of calyx, which suspend arabesques and cameos with aprons of scrolled hearts and anthemia. The apse is bordered by bands of guilloche and a band of calyx, and it is ornamented with a part-patera enclosed within bands of swags and part-rosettes, and of Vitruvian scroll. Beyond this there are radiating compartments bordered by calyx and containing rosettes and festoons suspending medallions and drop calyx

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the first Drawing room at Sir Watkin Wynn’s in S.t James’s Square / 51 / A measures one foot (pencil) / faint pencil inscriptions

Signed and dated

1772
Adelphi / 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green, pink, verdigris and Prussian blue on laid paper (608 x 449)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 94, 277
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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