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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/34

Purpose

[43] Design for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1778, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling ornamented with a central figurative oval, and this is set within an oval fan ornamented with anthemia and an oval band of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

1.st Drawing room Cieling at Roxburghe House / 34

Signed and dated

  • July 1778
    Adelphi 21.t July 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdigris, pink cerulean blue and terre verte on laid paper (384 x 330)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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