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[2] Record drawing for a ceiling for the great dining room, as executed, August 1780
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/79
Purpose
[2] Record drawing for a ceiling for the great dining room, as executed, August 1780
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central rectangular compartment containing a central medallion encircled by a fan, festoons, sphinxes, a band of guilloche, oval medallions, and with a band of anthemia, and enclosed rosettes to either side. The two bordering compartments are each divided by a screen of two columns, and contain medallions enclosed by wreaths, rosettes within lozenges, arabesques and anthemia
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Great Dining room at Cumberland House
Signed and dated
- 03-08-1780
3d August 1780
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre and black on laid paper (425 x 624)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Stillman, 1966, pp. 78, 106
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, pp. 78, 106
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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