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[97] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the gallery as executed, 1769
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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