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  • image SM Adam volume 8/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/19

Purpose

Preliminary design for a ceiling, ND

Aspect

Rough plan of a square ceiling with a central patera encircled by bands of guilloche and foliage and a border of scrolled heart. In each corner there is a calyx and at the bottom right there is the suggestion of hexagonal and square coffers enclosing rosettes

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (170x165)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

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