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[55] Record drawing for a ceiling for a garden building, March 1770, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/58
Purpose
[55] Record drawing for a ceiling for a garden building, March 1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a compartmental barrel-vaulted ceiling with an apse on either end. The central flat is divided into nine compartments. The central three compartments contain oval panels with medallions, and the outer compartments contain enclosed rosettes, and octagons enclosing urns, and the central flat has a border of festoons. The seven-part apse heads are ornamented with cameos
Scale
bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for a Garden Building at Kedleston (in the hand of William Adam) (and in feint pencil) Garden Seat / Painting / Brown Ground / Brown Ground
Signed and dated
- March 1770
March 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washed including verdigris and pink on laid paper (509 x 362)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi and title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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