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[4] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the bow room, 1769
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/95
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the bow room, 1769
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a canted bow at one end, containing a segmental rosette, enclosed within a fan, and a border of Vitruvian scroll with foliage. This detail is shown to a larger scale on the right-hand side of the sheet. The central flat is ornamented with a central oval compartment, encircled by calyx, an oval frame, four enclosed rosettes, and serpentine ribbons and wreaths containing enclosed rosettes, oval medallions, and one roundel is overdrawn with a peltoid shield, and with a rosette enclosed within a wreath in each corner
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Lord Eglington (sic)and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1769
datable to 1769
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (609 x 478)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
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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