[6] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the hall, 1767, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Cullen House, Moray: designs for the interior decoration of Cullen House and an entrance screen for James Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Findlater and 3rd Earl of Seafield, and designs for a chimney piece and furniture for the drawing room at Cullen House, along with a tea pavilion, town house or gardener’s house, and a gated lodge for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1767-83, executed in part (26)
    - Preliminary design and record drawings for ceilings for the hall, staircase, vestibule and library for the 6th Earl of Findlater, 1767, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/94

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the hall, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Ceiling plan comprising a square compartment with a segmental compartment at one end and a rectangular compartment at the other, divided by a screen of columns with panels in between. The central compartment contains a central rosette enclosed by a circle divided into sections alternating between fluted fans and arabesques with a festooned apron with peltoid shields in the corners enclosed by a square border of guilloche and framed by panels containing festoons and an enclosed motif. The segmental compartment contains a lunette with enclosed rosettes, and the rectangular compartment contains alternative patera and arabesque with a border of scrolled hearts

Scale

bar scale of 5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Ceiling for Hall at Cullen House

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (605x446)

Hand

Probably
probably Robert Adam or James Adam

Watermark

Cartouche surmounted by a fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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