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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/151
Purpose
Preliminary design for a ceiling, ND
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central patera encircled by lunettes of patera and peltoid shields, with bands of bellflowers culminating in figurative medallions and thyrsus containing figures. On each side are figurative lunettes containing urns flanked by sphinx and the whole is enclosed within a border of guilloche
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (295x255)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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