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[4] Record copy for a ceiling plan for a drawing room, 1790, executed status unknown
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/55
Purpose
[4] Record copy for a ceiling plan for a drawing room, 1790, executed status unknown
Aspect
Ceiling plan comprising three compartments with an apse end along the long side. The central compartment is adorned with an enclosed rosette bound by a radiating fan decorated with palmette, enclosed by an outer ring containing enclosed rosettes with four panels containing arabesque surmounted by winged sphinx on pedestals, with medallions containing figures with festoons in the corners. The outer compartments contain oval medallions bound by octagonal frames within square compartments flanked by arabesques in rectangular compartments. The apse is adorned with a lunette with anthemion and scrolling foliage bound by a moulded border enclosing a band adorned with enclosed rosettes and lozenges containing acanthus leaves
Scale
bar scale of 4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of an ornamented Cieling for Sir Alexr Don Baronet proposed to be executed in the Drawing room at Newton Don. / (verso) Sir Alexr Donn 4/3 / (in another hand) This to be placed ninth / 4 / 6
Signed and dated
- 20/4/1790
Albemarle Street / 20h April 1790
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured wash including cerulean blue, Naples yellow, sepia and violet on laid paper (606x482)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 24
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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