[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great dining room, as executed, 1780

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Cumberland House, 86 Pall Mall, London: designs for the interior, and additions to the house for the Duke of Cumberland, August 1780 - January 1788 (69)
      - Designs for the interior decoration, including the great dining room, music room, eating room, drawing rooms and boudoir (59)
        Preliminary design, finished drawing and record drawings for ceiling and walls for the great dining room, ceiling as executed, and walls presumed to have been executed, August 1780 (5)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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