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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/68

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for a ceiling for an eating room, 1770, as executed in 1990s

Aspect

Square ceiling plan with an apse at one end. The square compartment is ornamented with a central oval roundel encircled by a fan enclosed within a fluted border, with radiating arabesques and bands of enclosed rosettes. On each side are segmental lunettes containing rinceau, within fans adorned with calyx pairs. The apse compartment contains a segmental lunette within a fan adorned with strings of calyx. Both compartments are contained within guilloche borders and there are enclosed rosettes in the outer corners

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Cieling for the Eating room for Lord Chief Baron Ord ~

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink, cerulean blue, verdigris and Indian red on laid paper (606x444)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

R surmounted by a cartouche containing D & G with fleur de lis above

Notes

The ceiling was executed to this design in the 1990s. It is not clear if it was executed earlier and has been lost or removed at a later date.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2020, p245
Brune, 1991, pp. 475-482
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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