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[1] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room at 41 Portman Square, 1766, unexecuted
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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.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
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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