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[45] Design for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1778, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/36
Purpose
[45] Design for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1778, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with the central compartment ornamented with a figurative octagon surrounded by ellipses and set within a square compartment. Beyond this there are rosette roundels set within wreaths flanked by winged sphinxes, and the sphinxes are linked by semi-circular bands of calyx. All this is set within a roundel ornamented with a band of enclosed calyx and anthemia, and this is segmented by figurative panels. The panels have aprons of lion masks bearing festoons and suspending urns. The central compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing rosette roundels set within bands of calyx, and these are separated by rosettes within wreaths of calyx and flanked arabesques, calyx and anthemia
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the second Drawing room at Roxburghe House- / 36. / In execution the figure(?) [_ _ _ _ _ _] in [_ _ _ _ _] in the medallion also the 4 inches inside [_ _ _ _] The centre square mould octagonal (modern curatorial hand, Arthur Bolton, pencil)
Signed and dated
- July 1778
Adelphi 10.th July 1778.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdigris, violet, cerulean blue, pink on laid paper (491 x 411)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
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.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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