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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/97

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the library, 1766, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with apsidal ends, and additional octagonal compartments at either end. The central flat is ornamented with a square compartment containing rosettes, arabesques, lunettes, and festoons, flanked on either side by circular bands of wreaths which overlap into the apses, and contain circular fans. The octagon to the left has octagonal coffering, and to the right a fan ornamented with anthemia, showing alternative designs in each octagon

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for Lord Despencers Library

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (519 x 257)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 297
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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