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  • image SM Adam volume 11/252

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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