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  • image SM Adam volume 8/136

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/136

Purpose

Preliminary design for a ceiling, ND

Aspect

Quarter drawn rough plan of a rectangular or square ceiling with medallions containing patera, decorative lunettes containing urns flanked by sphinx, panels of arabesque, and borders of guilloche and laurel leaf tips

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (505x340)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

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