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  • image SM Adam volume 11/41

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/41

Purpose

[34] Unfinished preliminary design for the ceiling for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room, 1765, as executed

Aspect

Plan showing only part of the ceiling, with a central octagonal panel encircled by a wide border. The central panel contains a rosette encircled by enclosed anthemia, swags and lion masks. The border contains vases, swags, griffons and foliate ornamentation

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for Lady Coventry's Octagon Dressg Room / in Piccadilly

Signed and dated

  • September 1765
    Sep 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (296 x 351)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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