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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/77

Purpose

[20] Design for a ceiling for the cube room, 1763, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central rosette encircled by a fans of fluting, festoons, husks, bows and enclosed rosettes
  • image SM Adam volume 11/77

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Square Room at Bowood

Signed and dated

  • June 1763
    1763 / June 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (346 x 353)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 192
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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