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  • image SM Adam volume 11/94

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/94

Purpose

[9] Design for the ceiling for the hall, 1763, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central compartment of octagonal coffering, 7 octagons by three, ornamented with rosettes, and framed by a band of fret and festoons, and with an additional bordering rectangular compartment for the ceiling beyond the colonnade shown in Adam volume 41/19, with figure-of-eight of bell flowers enclosing rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of Lord Willoughby de Broke at Compton

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (442 x 304)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
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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