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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/168

Purpose

[95] Design for the ceiling for the gallery, unexecuted, 1765

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with apsidal ends, divided by screens of two columns, with the soffit ornamented with laurel leaves, and containing a central fan, encircled by five rosettes enclosed by octagons. The central flat is divided into three large contiguous circles, each containing four rosettes enclosed by lozenges, and four roundels, and these large circles are framed by fans, and a border of fret, and dentils

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

1st Cieling for the Gallery at Gawthorpe House (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (518 x255)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, p. 103
Mauchline, 1992, p. 77
Harris, 2001, p. 146
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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