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  • image SM Adam volume 11/54

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/54

Purpose

[115] Design for unknown ceilings, 1761

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central rosette encircled by strigillation, and a wreath held by bows and lion masks, and with a border of Vitruvian scroll. The lion masks are underdrawn with bows in pencil

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Kedleston

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (247 x 244)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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