[12] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the dressing room, 1765, unexecuted

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    - Downing Street, number 15, Westminster, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for John Sargent, 1764-65 (13)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for the ceiling and finished drawing for the walls for the dressing room, 1764-65, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/104

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the dressing room, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central rectangular compartment of fret, and enclosed rosettes, containing a rosette enclosed by a fan ornamented with scrolled hearts, and enclosed calyx, encircled by rosettes and patera within figure-of-eight wreaths, and outside the rectangular compartment are rosettes, festoons, peltoid shields, oval medallions containing baskets, and rectangular figurative panels

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Mrs Sargents Dressing Room

Signed and dated

1765
1765 and it appears that a signature has been mostly cropped from the bottom left-hand corner

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, lemon yellow and pink within a single ruled border on laid paper (469 x 416)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, 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

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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