[7] Variant record copy of 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 11/243

Purpose

[7] Variant record copy of a ceiling for the hall, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Ceiling plan, similar to SM Adam volume 8/94 with additional detailing and some variation on the decoration including rinceaux in place of the arabesque

Scale

bar scale of 5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Hall at Cullen House / 243

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (599x433)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, J. P. Laurent or Joseph Bonomi

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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