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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/90

Purpose

[1] Design for a ceiling, 1762

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central patera encircled by arabesques and calyx, with anthemia, urns, half-figures, rosettes and half-dogs

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for Foley House (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (488 x 370)

Hand

Unknown hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45
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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