[9] Design for the ceiling for Mr Sargent's bedroom, 1764, unexecuted

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    - Downing Street, number 15, Westminster, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for John Sargent, 1764-65 (13)
      - Design for the ceiling and finished drawing for the walls of Mr Sargent's bedroom, 1764-65, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/105

Purpose

[9] Design for the ceiling for Mr Sargent's bedroom, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular coved ceiling with a central enclosed rosette, encircled by arabesques and calyx, a lozenge-shaped band of enclosed rosettes, bows, swags, and with a border of guilloche enclosing rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Ceiling for Mr Sargents Bed Room

Signed and dated

1764
J Adam Archt 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper

Hand

James Adam

Notes

Adam volume 11/105 is one of very few that were signed by James 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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