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[1] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the great room, 1766
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/69
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the great room, 1766
Aspect
Plan of part of a niche head, with a central rosette, encircled by fluting, enclosed rosettes, a band of hatching, and a fan containing grotesque panels of arabesques, anthemia, and enclosed rosettes, and beyond is a band of miniature square coffering, an enclosed rosette, encircled by anthemia, and more coffering
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Nich My Lord Fife and some rough calculations
Signed and dated
- 1766
datable to 1766
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (184 x 253)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
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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