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  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/10

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/10

Purpose

Preliminary design for a ceiling, ND

Aspect

Part drawn rough plan of a square ceiling with a central medallion set within a lozenge-shaped panel containing a rosette, a palmette, an arabesque and a thyrsus, bordered by Vitruvian scroll and by a compartmental border containing arabesques, urns and figurative lunettes

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (92x94)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

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