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[95] Design for the ceiling for the gallery, unexecuted, 1765
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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.
Stillman, 1966, p. 103
Mauchline, 1992, p. 77
Harris, 2001, p. 146
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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