[1] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room at 41 Portman Square, 1766, unexecuted

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    - Portman Square, numbers 41 and 21, London: executed and unexecuted designs for alterations, for William Locke, 1765-66 and 1772-78 (9)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/172

Purpose

[1] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room at 41 Portman Square, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by a border of enclosed rosettes, rinceaux, and winged griffons flanking urns. The central square contains a central roundel, set within a lozenge containing rinceaux, and enclosed by rosettes and festoons, and with a fan in each corner, enclosed by a band of Vitruvian scroll. The rectangular side compartments contain rinceaux of volute-shaped acanthus leaves, rosettes, anthemia, and drops of calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cornish (in pencil) / [cropped] at Morning a Sketch ready to this [cropped] (in pencil) / Cieling for the Drawing room for Willm Locke Esqr

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (441 x 332)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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