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  • image SM Adam volume 14/38

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

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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