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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/64

Purpose

[4] Design for a ceiling for a building, c.1791-92, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan for a ceiling ornamented with contiguous, radiating circles containing a central enclosed rosette and flanking lunettes, within moulded bands ornamented with radiating palmette, and husks. These are enclosed within festoons of husks, and beyond, bands of guilloche. Between the lunettes and central circle are smaller enclosed rosettes and panels ornamented with figurative medallions surmounted by urns and flanked by griffins

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the Trades Hall of Glasgow / Ja[sic] with some annotations and dimensions

Signed and dated

  • c.1791-92
    datable to c.1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (419x253)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or James Adam

Watermark

W surmounted by a shield and fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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