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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/35

Purpose

[44] 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 surrounded by festoons of beading, set within an oval fan ornamented with anthemia, and an oval band of guilloche. Beyond this bands of beading suspend figurative roundels set within an oval band of Vitruvian scroll. All is enclosed within festoons of calyx interspersed with ox skulls and suspending wreaths enclosing rosettes, with aprons of arabesques, peltoid shields and drop calyx

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the first Drawing room at Roxburghe House. / 35.

Signed and dated

  • July 1778
    Adelphi 10.th July 1778.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink, cerulean blue, verdigris, terre verte and violet on laid paper (395 x 403)

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

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