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  • image SM Adam volume 14/70

Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/70

Purpose

[2] Record drawing for a ceiling, ND

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling containing a central square compartment, and this is ornamented with a figurative roundel set within a circular fan embellished with calyx. Beyond this there is a band of Vitruvian scroll enclosing anthemia, and festoons and wreaths of husks which suspended figurative tablets, drop calyx, and paterae. The central compartment is flanked by strip compartments ornamented with rosette roundels, and these are set within lozenges and an overlapping band of circles with calyx set in between

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Mr. Aislabie Gros.r Sq.r

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (432 x 312)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 37
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 180
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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