[2] Design for the ceiling of the great room, 1766

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - 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 11/196

Purpose

[2] Design for the ceiling of the great room, 1766

Aspect

Plan of a detail of a compartmental ceiling, with a central medallion enclosed by a band of anthemia, calyx and arabesques, an octagonal band of enclosed anthemia, lunettes containing military trophies or winged griffons, arabesques, and oval medallions, all within a square band of scrolled hearts, and framed by circular and octagonal medallions, enclosed by wreaths of bell flowers, arabesques, and half figures, and with a border of guilloche enclosing rosettes, framed by small fans, and bands of scrolled hearts

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a painted Cieling for the Great room at The Earl of Fife's House Whitehall

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow, red and cerulean blue on laid paper (761 x 613)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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