[4] Finished drawing 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 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.

Level

Drawing

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