[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1776, thought to be as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - 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 8/31

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1776, thought to be as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling compartment, with a central figurative medallion, encircled by a frame of lobes, winged figures, and set within an x-shaped arrangement, with an enclosed urn at each corner, and framed by festoons, and medallions flanked by by winged griffons, and turned pedestals, and in each corner is a segmental rosette, enclosed within a fan of enclosed miniature rosettes, and enclosed calyx(?)

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1776
datable to 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (207 x 207)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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