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[1] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/27
Purpose
[1] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling with a chimneybreast at one of the short ends, and divided by bands of rosettes and rosettes enclosed within connected roundels and lozenges, with a central square compartment containing a central roundel, enclosed within a frame of miniature rosettes, encircled by alternating enclosed rosettes and triangular compartments containing winged half figures, and all enclosed within a shaped lozenge, encircled by alternating ovals and lozenges, within a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, and with an urn and arabesques in each corner, and the central square is flanked by rectangular compartments containing segmental compartments with a large central tubular flower flanked by rinceaux and enclosed masks, and with a triangle in each top corner outside the segmental compartment, containing winged figures
Scale
bar scale 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling of the front Drawing room at The Earl of Clanbrassillis (sic) in Stanhope Street / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / (and in pencil) to [ ____ ] west and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, violet, Indian red, and verdigris on laid paper (573 x 401)
Hand
Adam office, possibly William Hamilton
Watermark
XD&CB within a 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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