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  • image SM Adam volume 11/173

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/173

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1766

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a chimney breast on one side, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan of fluting, and a fan of triangles and lozenges enclosed rosettes, and within circular frames of cable moulding, with a border of rosettes and lozenges, and encircled by enclosed rosettes, and festoons, and with a rosette enclosed within a wreath, and a short drop of calyx in each corner, and the ceiling has a border of anthemia and calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the first Drawing room at Andrew Millar Esqrs House / in Pall Mall

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (287 x 414)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 43
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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