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  • image SM Adam volume 12/70

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/70

Purpose

[11] Record drawing for a ceiling for a first drawing room, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Rectangular ceiling plan containing a central patera enclosed within a fan, a beaded frame and a wide plain frame, connected to four enclosed rosettes connecting a frame of calyx pairs and rosettes wrapped in foliage, framed by beaded moulding and festoons, with scrolling foliage rising from an urn in each corner. There are bands at either end of the rectangular compartment containing enclosed rosettes in the corners and panels containing arabesques and griffons, divided by a guilloche border

Scale

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

Inscribed

Cieling for the 1.st Drawing room for Lord Chief Baron Ord ~ / 70

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including verdigris, red, pink, cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (531x393)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

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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