[4] Design for a ceiling for the ground storey dressing room (later the morning room), 1764, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 18 (later 19), London: executed and unexecuted designs for interior decoration for the 8th Earl of Thanet, 1764-66 (14)
      - Design for a ceiling for the ground storey dressing room (later the morning room), 1764, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/119

Purpose

[4] Design for a ceiling for the ground storey dressing room (later the morning room), 1764, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central rosette encircled by a fan, cable moulding, an octagonal band of fret intertwined with figure-of-eight wreaths, four wreaths enclosing rosettes, all within a square band of cable moulding, framed by lunette-shaped fans, festoons, and drops of calyx connecting to peltoid shields and oval medallions containing urns, and with a pencil-drawn annotation to the right-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of The Dressing Room at the Earl of Thanets / in Grosvenor Square

Signed and dated

1764
datable to 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (366 x 275)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson or James Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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