[3] Record drawing for the ceiling of the great room, 1766, as executed

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    - Fife House, Whitehall, London: designs for interior decoration, for James Duff, 2nd Earl of Fife, 1766-67 (4)
      - Preliminary design, design, and record drawing for the ceiling of the great room, 1766, drawing 3 as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/197

Purpose

[3] Record drawing for the ceiling of the great room, 1766, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling, with a central apse at one end, divided by bands of scrolled hearts, and panels containing rinceaux, and rosettes within octagonal frames. The central flat has a central rectangular compartment with a central patera enclosed within an elliptical frame of Vitruvian scroll, a fan, and an additional elliptical frame of cable moulding, encircled by festoons, and with a rosette within a wreath in each corner, and this central compartment is framed by rectangular compartments containing rosettes enclosed within fans of fluting and lozenges, and with an enclosed medallion in each corner. The apse head is ornamented with a central patera, enclosed within a fan, and bands of compartments containing oval medallions, rosettes enclosed within lozenges, rinceaux, rosettes enclosed with octagons, and festoons

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieing of the Great room at the Earl of Fife's House Whitehall

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (862 x 612)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Watermark

XD&CB within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 423
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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