[8] Record copy for a ceiling for the staircase, 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 11/244

Purpose

[8] Record copy for a ceiling for the staircase, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Ceiling plan comprising a central flower enclosed by two sets of scalloped borders followed by a border of calyx contained within a concave lozenge with scrolled foliage in the corners. The lozenge has an apron of enclosed rosettes with a continuous festoon

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Staircase at Cullen House. / 244

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (382x318)

Hand

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

Watermark

D & C BLAUW

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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