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[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, thought to be as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/122
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, thought to be as executed
Aspect
Plan of a tripartite rectangular cieling, with a central medallion, encircled by tubular flowers, all within an x-shaped arrangement with rosettes enclosed by octagons at each corner, and on each side is a segmental compartment containing an urn and arabesques, and the whole is flanked by rectangular compartments containing anthemia, and rosettes within lozenges
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1769
datable to 1769
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (435 x 292)
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Plan of a series of circular and square rooms, and a wall elevation showing a door, flanked by niches, and behind a screen of two columns, to a scale
Literature
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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