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[3] Preliminary design for a variant ceiling for the drawing room, 1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/7
Purpose
[3] Preliminary design for a variant ceiling for the drawing room, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a tripartite rectangular ceiling, divided by bands containing miniature rosettes, with a chimneybreast on one of the short ends, and with a central square compartment containing a medallion, enclosed within a fan ornamented with anthemia and calyx, and set within a circular frame of miniature rosettes, and the central square is flanked by rectangular compartments, one of which contains a patera, within oval frames of enclosed anthemia and miniature rosettes
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for Doctor Warren’s 1st. Drawing Room (underwritten in pencil) / (and in pencil) Sky / Lg [presumably light green] / D green / L green / Window / dark green / dark / light / darkish green / darkest green and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1775
Adelphi / June 3d. 1775.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pen on laid paper (443 x 285)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Watermark
YVILLEDARY*V*I
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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