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[3] Alternative finished drawing for a ceiling for the great drawing room, 1768, as executed
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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.
Beard, 1978, p. 13
Harris, 2007, p. 234
For full literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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