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  • image SM Adam volume 11/137

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/137

Purpose

[32] Record drawing for the ceiling for the library (now the old library), 1765-66

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 11/135, but with rinceaux rather than rosettes enclosed by wreaths around the central circle, and with cameos rather than medallions in the corners of the central compartment, and without bands fo rosettes enclosed within wreaths in the side compartments or cove, and with a simplified pattern of rinceaux in the cove, as executed

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Library at Gawthorp. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (600 x 466)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 70
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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