[3] Finished drawing for the ceiling of the drawing room, 1764, unexecuted

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    - Downing Street, number 15, Westminster, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for John Sargent, 1764-65 (13)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/102

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the ceiling of the drawing room, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a canted end, and with a central patera enclosed within a fan, a band of guilloche, a band of griffons, urns, arabesques and rosettes, and the whole encircled by festoons, ribbons, masks, and two peltoid shields

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for a Cieling for the Drawing Room for John Sargent Esqr

Signed and dated

1764
1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including red and Indian red on laid paper (501 x 412)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 37
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 180
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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