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  • image SM Adam volume 11/48

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/48

Purpose

[137] Record drawing for a ceiling for the circular dressing room, March 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a circular ceiling including four niche heads, with a central rosette encircled by a fan, festoons, medallions, arabesques, and urns. The niche heads are ornamented with medallion, arabesques and anthemia, and between the niche heads are large tubular flowers supporting urns and arabesques, and flanked by female figures

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the new intended Circular room at Kedleston

Signed and dated

  • March 1768
    March 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes on laid paper (520 x 624)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 173-74
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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