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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.

Level

Drawing

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