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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/1

Purpose

[1] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining parlour, 1769

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a chimneybreast on one of the short sides, with a central medallion, enclosed within frames of beading, fluting, laurel leaf tips, Vitruvian scroll, and a shaped octagon containing enclosed rosettes and rinceaux, and with a segmental recess on each side which contains a stucco medallion, and the whole is set within a border of festoons

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Dining Parlor at Sir Robt Rich's in Grosvenor Square / pink / brown / Blue / Stucco / Pink / Light Green / painted / Medallion of stucco and some measurements given and some rough calculations in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and olive green on laid paper (498 x 454)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 37
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 180
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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