[9] Record drawing for a ceiling for the vestibule, 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 11/245

Purpose

[9] Record drawing for a ceiling for the vestibule, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Ceiling plan comprising a central flower enclosed by alternating calyx drops and fluting enclosed by a scalloped border, with an apron of festoons and calyx drops, enclosed in a border of alternating anthemion and calyx on scrolled foliage with a lunette on each wall side containing a half-flower and fan

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Vestible at Cullen House / 245

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (350x319)

Hand

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

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
King, 2020, p. 90
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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