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  • image SM Adam volume 11/257

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/257

Purpose

[3] Alternative finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 13/90, but with small medallions replacing the enclosed rosettes, and without half animals in the flanking panels

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the front Drawing room / at John Parker Esqrhouse in Sackville Street / Mr Parker (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and pink within a single ruled border on laid paper (552 x 465)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
For full 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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