[59] Design for a ceiling for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, 1773, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Designs and a record drawing for a ceiling for Lady Williams-Wynn's dressing room, c1773 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/54

Purpose

[59] Design for a ceiling for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, 1773, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, vaulted ceiling, flanked by rectangular compartments. The ceiling is ornamented with a central patera, set within a lozenge ornamented with corner fans. Beyond this there is an oval band of continuous wreaths enclosing rosettes, and this is segmented by pedestals with a turned support, which bear figurative cameos enclosed within bands of calyx. The corners of the ceiling are ornamented with calyx supporting anthemia and scrolled hearts, flanked by arabesques. The flanking rectangular compartments are ornamented with a rosette set within a wreath of calyx and surrounded by bands of calyx, all set within a symmetrical cruciform. Beyond this there are arabesques and bands of enclosed rosettes. This is flanked by irregular lozenges containing winged griffins set within a wreath of calyx and a band of inverted swags, and the lozenge is ornamented with corner fans set within a band of foil

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Lady Wynn’s Dressing room in S.t James’s Square- not executed / 54.

Signed and dated

January 1773
Janry 18.t 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (590 x 445)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 284
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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