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[5] Design for a ceiling for Lady Griffin's dressing room, June 1778
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/41
Purpose
[5] Design for a ceiling for Lady Griffin's dressing room, June 1778
Aspect
Plan of a square ceiling, with a central figurative medallion encircled by anthemia, and enclosed anthemia within the central circle of guilloche, and the other, smaller circles enclosing rosettes, framed by festoons, four rectangular tablets containing putti riding half sphinxes, urns, ox skulls, and four vesica-shaped figurative medallions enclosed within wreaths
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for Lady Griffin's Dressing room in Saville row / not executed
Signed and dated
- June 1778
Adelphi / 22d June 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including terre vert on laid paper (408 x 393)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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