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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/45

Purpose

[67] Record drawing for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and detail of a barrel-vaulted compartmental ceiling, divided into nine compartments containing round and oval panels of bands of acanthus leaves and urns and anthemia, framed by bands of hexagons enclosing flowers

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Hall at Kedleston (in the hand of William Adam) Part of the Cieling at the Angle with the Cove / Extended upon a Straight Line

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (582 x 449)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 66
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
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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