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[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great dining room, as executed, 1780
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 5/33
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great dining room, as executed, 1780
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment, and two bordering rectangular compartments, divided by bands of scrolled hearts, and screens of two columns. The square has a central rosette, encircled by two alternative designs, one for a fan, and the other being an enclosed anthemion, and with borders of enclosed rosettes. The rectangles to either side contain medallions enclosed by wreaths
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Cieling of the Great Room at Cumberland House / orange / Light Grey / Light Orange / Pink ground / Etruscan ground / Light Orange / Grey Ground Bands / Etruscan Honeysuckle & [feint word] yellow / Light Orange / Etruscan Ground / Light Orange / Light Grey Ornaments / Etruscan [2 feint words] / Dark grounds and other feint pencil annotations
Signed and dated
- 1780
datable to 1780
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (292 x 585)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Stillman, 1966, p. 106
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 106
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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