[61] Design for a ceiling for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, c1773, 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)
      - 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 12/56

Purpose

[61] Design for a ceiling for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, c1773, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular vaulted ceiling flanked by rectangular compartments as SM Adam volume 12/54, but with alterations. There is an additional oval band surrounding the central patera ornamented with anthemia and calyx. There is also an additional outer oval band of fluting, and this supports urns and half putti with arabesques

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of Lady Wynn’s Dressing room in S.t James’s Square- / as executed. / 56. / D. Green (pencil) / D. Pink (pencil) / D. Green (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

May 1773
Adelphi / 22.d May 177[3] / d

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (570 x 425)

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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