[12] Finished drawing for a ceiling for a second drawing room, 1770, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Edinburgh
    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
      - Designs, finished drawings and record copies for ceilings for a house, 1770 (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/71

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for a ceiling for a second drawing room, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Square ceiling plan comprising a central enclosed rosette, encircled within a frame of chained calyxes in petals, a fluted frame, and festoons supporting four oval medallions set within a shaped frame of calyx. In each corner are segmental rosettes within fluted frames, enclosed by double calyx with palmettes in petals, encircled by a wide frame with scallops terminating in calyx and a bordering fluted frame, with arabesques in between, and the whole is set within a square frame of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

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

Inscribed

Cieling of a 2.d Drawing room for Lord Chief Baron Ord ~ / 71

Signed and dated

1770
1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink, Indian red, red, Naples yellow, Indian yellow, cerulean blue and olive green on laid paper (471x452)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

D & C Blauw

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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