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  • image SM Adam volume 12/69

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/69

Purpose

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

Aspect

Same as SM Adam volume 12/68 with details of figures within the central segmental lunettes in the square and apsidal compartments

Scale

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

Inscribed

Cieling of Eating room for Lord Chief Baron Ord / A Duplicate / 69

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink, verdigris, cerulean blue, Naples yellow and Indian red on laid paper (593x450)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

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 replaced at a later date.

Literature

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

Level

No level

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