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  • image SM Adam volume 11/163

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/163

Purpose

[83] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval patera, enclosed by an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, accompanied by thyrsi, and within an oval frame of cable moulding, encircled by anthemia, and the whole within the central compartment of reed and ribbon guilloche, with rosettes enclosed in the four outer compartments, and which is entwined with vines

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Room in the South West Corridore at Gawthorpe House in Yorkshire. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (631 x 406)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
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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