[49] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the third / great drawing room, c1778, executed with minor alterations

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    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Preliminary design and designs for the third / great drawing room, 1778, executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/31

Purpose

[49] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the third / great drawing room, c1778, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling with an apsidal end on one long side. The central square compartment is ornamented with a figurative roundel set within a band of fluting and a band of enclosed anthemia and festoons. Beyond this here is a roundel of foil forming a rosette and a band ornamented with winged griffins, arabesques, urns, and pedestals supporting further urns. The band is segmented by figurative ovals, with a band of festoons suspending cameos beyond. The flanking strip panels are ornamented with a central figurative roundel surmounted by an anthemion and flanked by urns, winged sphinxes, arabesques, and cameos. All this has an apron of festoons of husks. The apse is ornamented with a central figurative roundel flanked by urns, winged sphinxes, and arabesques, and this has an apron of festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing Room (?) Duke of Roxburgh (pencil, cropped)

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (554 x 464)

Hand

Possibly
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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