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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/144

Purpose

[97] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the gallery as executed, 1769

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval medallion, and an octagonal compartment containing rosettes, and fans, and within an x-shaped arrangement containing scrolled hearts, and drops of calyx, and framed by lunettes containing animals, rectangular figurative panels, and crosses containing enclosed rosettes

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (321 x 279)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Stillman, 1966, p. 103
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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