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  • image SM Adam volume 11/233

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/233

Purpose

[2] Record drawing for a ceiling for the music room, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan, a circular frame of cable moulding, and an octagonal fluted frame, supporting drops of calyx, at the end of which are anthemia, and which support festoons, and these drops and festoons enclose ovals panels containing urns

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of Music room for Sir Ralph Milbanke

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (338 x 289)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
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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