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  • image SM Adam volume 11/176

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/176

Purpose

[2] Record drawing for the dining room, c1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette encircled by bands of enclosed rosettes, arabesques, and festoons, and with a border of fret, with an octagonal compartment in each corner containing an enclosed rosette, and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

A Design of a Cieling for the Dining Room at Kimbolton Castle in Huntingdonshire and (verso) Section of a Room for the Duke of Manchester

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (508 x 429)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 179
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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