[10] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room, 1766

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Pall Mall, number 34 (later 25), London: executed designs for the house, for Andrew Millar, 1765-66 (11)
      - Finished drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room, 1766 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/174

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room, 1766

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a chimney breast in one side, composed of alternating square compartments containing trophy roundels, and octagonal compartments containing rosettes, either enclosed by a fan and festoons, or by guilloche and miniature rosettes. The whole is divided by narrow bands of scrolled hearts

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the back Drawing room at Andrew Millar Esqrs / Pall Mall

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (285 x 405)

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

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