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[2] Record drawing for a ceiling for a drawing room, 1770
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/252
Purpose
[2] Record drawing for a ceiling for a drawing room, 1770
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling with apsidal ends, with a central patera, enclosed within a band of laves, rinceaux, a lozenge-shaped frame of guilloche, and an elliptical frame of reed and ribbon with aprons of festoons of flowers both outside and inside which connect to four roundels containing enclosed rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling of Drawing room for George Thornhill Esqr.
Signed and dated
- 1770
1770.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte and pink on laid paper (438 x 364)
Hand
Adam office hand, probably William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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