Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Preliminary designs for ceilings and a cornice, ND
  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/53
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/53

Purpose

Preliminary designs for ceilings and a cornice, ND

Aspect

Upper: Part drawn rough plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central patera encircled by rosettes and acanthus leaves, bordered by a band of lozenges Lower left: Part drawn plan of a rectangular ceiling divided into two portions, each of which contains a central patera flanked by acanthus leaves and rosettes, separated by a band of quatrefoils Lower Right: Rough elevation of a cornice

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (137x164)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).