[2] Design for a ceiling for an unknown room, c1771

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Wimpole Street, number 37, London: designs for interior decoration for Colonel Sir William Mayne Bt, 1771 (5)
      - Preliminary design and design for a ceiling for an unknown room, c1771 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/26

Purpose

[2] Design for a ceiling for an unknown room, c1771

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular(?) ceiling, with a central enclosed oval patera, encircled by rosettes enclosed within scrolled hearts, and an oval frame of guilloche, and set within a border of connected rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, flanked at each short end by two masks enclosed within fans and wreaths

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Major Maine in Wimpole Street

Signed and dated

c1771
datable to c1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (393 x 289)

Hand

Adam office hand

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 395
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 181
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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