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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/84

Purpose

[14] Record drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1768, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite rectangular ceiling with a canted bay at one end, as in Adam volume 11/256, shown complete. On the opposite side of the square compartment to the bay is a narrow rectangular compartment containing a mask and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Library at Saltram / Painting 1780 filled in (in the hand of A. T. Bolton) / Painting [--------] / Blue painted Head / Brown / Pink / Green / Red (in the hand of Robert Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink and olive green wash on laid paper (604 x 426)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with additional inscriptions in the hand of Robert Adam and Arthur Bolton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p.159, Index p. 27
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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