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[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great room, 1769, as executed
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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.
Stillman, 1966, p. 102
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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