[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, thought to be as executed

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    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
      - Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawings for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769 and 1776, thought to be as executed (4)

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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

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