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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/158

Purpose

[74] Alternative preliminary design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central rosettes, encircled by enclosed calyx, within an x-shaped arrangement, and surrounded by rinceaux, and with a border of lozenges enclosed within circles. The central square compartment is flanked by tripartite, rectangular compartments, and the right-hand side shows a central enclosed rosettes, flanked by rectangles containing lozenges

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (297 x 405)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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

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