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[50] Design for a ceiling for the third / great drawing room, 1778, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/38
Purpose
[50] Design for a ceiling for the third / great drawing room, 1778, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling with an apse on one long side as SM Adam volume 5/31
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the third Drawing room at Roxburghe House. / Green (?) (pencil) / Green (?) (pencil) / 38.
Signed and dated
- July 1778
Adelphi 10:th July 1778.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdigris, terre verte, cerulean blue, pink and violet on laid paper (568 x 443)
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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