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  • image SM Adam volume 8/18

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/18

Purpose

Preliminary design for a ceiling, ND

Aspect

Left: Rough plan of a rectangular, apsidal ceiling with a central figurative medallion encircled by fluting, festoons and additional figurative medallions, and with a lunette containing a patera enclosed by ornamental bands Right: Part drawn rough plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central medallion enclosed by diamond-shaped bands of bellflower, and with additional ornamentation of rosettes and arabesques. The ceiling is enclosed by a border of arabesques

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Marybone[?] / Cornice and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (321x212)

Hand

probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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