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  • image SM Adam volume 11/254

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/254

Purpose

[3] Alternative finished drawing for a ceiling for the great drawing room, 1768, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular tripartite coved ceiling divided by bands of scrolled hearts, with a large oval in each compartment of the central flat containing a lozenge and painted roundel. Medallions in the corner of the central compartment, peltoid shields in those flanking; the central oval filled with anthemia, those flanking with four rosettes. The central flat is bordered in the cove with fans and festoons; griffons, winged sphinxes and arabesques below, with medallions on the long sides and rosettes on the short

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Drawing Room at Saltram The Seat of John Parker Esquire

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and colour washes including pink and terre verte on laid paper (636 x 442)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
Beard, 1978, p. 13
Harris, 2007, p. 234
For full 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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