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[22] Design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1765
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/134
Purpose
[22] Design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1765
Aspect
Plan of a tripartite rectangular ceiling, divided by bands of scrolled hearts, and with a large apse on one side decorated with radiating ornaments. The flat part of the ceiling has a central rectangular compartment, with an oval patera, enclosed by a fan, Vitruvian scroll, peltoid shields, and festoons, and this is ringed with half-figures, and an oval frame of calyx, and with rinceaux in the corners. The central compartment is flanked by rectangles each containing an urn on a pedestal, flanked by winged griffons, and rinceaux
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Dining Room at Gawthorpe The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esqr and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash (603 x 448)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
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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