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[18] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room, 1770, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/31
Purpose
[18] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room, 1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of cable moulding and lozenges enclosing rosettes, and alternating with calyx. There is a central square compartment containing a central medallion, encircled by a band of rosettes, calyx crockets, peltoid shields, enclosed urns, rinceaux, drops of calyx forming a lozenge-shaped frame, accompanied by a shaped s-shape frame, all set within a circular cross-shaped frame of cable moulding, with a half-figure supporting a tazza in each corner, and framed by bows and festoons, and with masks enclosed within wreaths in each corner of the compartment. The central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a large oval frame of guilloche, and the central oval containing drops of ribbon with bows, peltoid shields, and calyx, and with a central medallion encircled by a band of rosettes, calyx crockets, and anthemia, all set within a lozenge framed by oval medallions. The outer compartments contain rinceaux and half-figures
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Dining room at Northumberland House / not executed
Signed and dated
- June 1770
June 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (621 x 433)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
XDCB within cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 2001, p. 344
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, p. 344
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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