[17] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the hall, 1766, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Hatch House (now Mersham-le-Hatch), Mersham, Kent: executed and unexecuted designs for the house and interior for Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet, and Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet, 1762-66 (34)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/177

Purpose

[17] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the hall, 1766, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of Greek key fret, and with a central square compartment containing a central patera, enclosed by a band of guilloche, and encircled by a frame of Vitruvian scroll, crockets, and shaped rectangular panels to each side containing urns and rinceau, and shaped pentagonal panels in each corner, containing a rosette within a circular frame of cable moulding, and fronds of foliage. The central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments with a central rosette, within a circular frame of cable moulding, and flanked by rectangular frames of cable moulding containing winged half-putti and rinceau

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Hall at Hatch House in Kent The Seat of Sir Edward Knatchbull Baronet and some measurements given / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) Exact but arms / in centre

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (514 x 356)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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