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Reference number

SM Adam volume 7/141

Purpose

[11] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the dressing room, 1764-65, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of part of a circular ceiling, with a central patera, encircled by a fan ornamented with drops of olive leaves, rosettes, and enclosed by a band of guilloche, and encircled by calyx and festoons

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Mr Sargents Dressing room and some rough calculations (all in pen)

Signed and dated

  • 1764-1765
    date range: 1764-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (184 x 163)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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