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[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1776, thought to be as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/214
Purpose
[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1776, thought to be as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central figurative medallion, encircled by festoons, oval medallions, and set within an x-shaped arrangement, framed by figurative medallions, flanked by winged sphinxes, and urns on turned pedestals, and in each corner is a segmental rosette, enclosed within a frame of enclosed anthemia, and a border of miniature rosettes, and the whole has a border of rectangular compartments containing enclosed anthemia, alternating with squares containing enclosed rosettes in each corner, and segmental figurative compartments on each side, and this is flanked by rectangular compartments containing medallions, festoons, beading, tubular flowers, and arabesques
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the first Drawing room at Robert Child Esqrs House in Berkeley Square
Signed and dated
- 1776
1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including pink, verdigris and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (421 x 475)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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