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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/169

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling, ornamented with a pattern composed of garlands of guilloche, enclosing rosettes, and rosettes within fans, and between the guilloche are shaped octagons, containing medallions of half-eagles

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Gallery 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 on laid paper (1023 x 365)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

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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