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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
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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