[51] Design for a ceiling for the third / great drawing room, 1778, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Preliminary design and designs for the third / great drawing room, 1778, executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/39

Purpose

[51] Design for a ceiling for the third / great drawing room, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling with an apse on one long side as SM Adam volume 5/31, but with minor alterations. The central square compartment is ornamented with a figurative roundel set within a band of enclosed anthemia and festoons, a circular band of foil, and a circular band of enclosed calyx. Beyond this there is a plain band, and this is surrounded by festoons of husks and figurative ovals with aprons of arabesques, peltoid shields and drop calyx

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Great Drawing room at Roxburghe House / 39. / as executed (modern curatorial hand: Arthur Bolton, in pencil)

Signed and dated

1778
1778.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink, verdigris, cerulean blue and terre verte on laid paper (528 x 419)

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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