[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great room, 1769, as executed

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    - Piccadilly, number 79, (now 1 Stratton Street), London: designs for ceilings for the 11th Earl of Eglinton, 1769 (7)
      - Preliminary design, finished drawing and record drawing for a ceiling for the great room, 1769, as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/149

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with an apsidal end, containing a segmental rosette, encircled by a fluted frame, and a fan. The central flat is tripartite. There is a central square containing a medallion, enclosed within a fluted frame, and a frame of cable moulding, and encircled by compartments divided by bands of cable moulding, containing rinceaux, urns supported by pedestals, and segmental medallions behind bands of fans, and with rinceaux in each corner. The central square is flanked by rectangular compartments, containing a repeating pattern of enclosed rosettes, within lozenges, alternating with miniature enclosed rosettes, and with calyx, anthemia, and arabesques between each lozenge

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Eglingtons (sic) Great Room / (and in pen) Blue Ground / Painted ornam / fan Colour / White / Blue Ground / Pink Ground / Green / White / Pink / Green Bas relif

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (610 x 405)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
Stillman, 1966, p. 102
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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