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  • image SM Adam volume 11/57

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/57

Purpose

[118] Record drawing for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central flower within a circular compartment, flanked by a half octagon panel to either side. The ceiling is ornamented with rosettes, festoons, arabesques, calyx and anthemia

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Musick room Ceiling for Kedleston

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (441 x 303)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 14
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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