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  • image SM Adam volume 14/63

Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/63

Purpose

[24] Record copy for an alternative eating room ceiling, 1779, as executed

Aspect

Ceiling plan, same as SM Adam volume 14/62 with the omission of the lunette decoration in the apsidal compartments, along with the rod, the pairs of urns and griffons, the corner fans with the connecting beading

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Eating room at Cullean Castle – / 63

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including cerulean blue, pink, lemon yellow and Verdigris on laid paper (547x387)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
Harris, 2001, pp. 329-30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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