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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/180

Purpose

[33] Design for a ceiling for the ante room, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central enclosed patera, framed by four anthemia, and these enclosed within a shaped lozenge frame of cable moulding, encircled by a fan, an oval frame of cable moulding, bows, and festoons, and with a border around the edge of the ceiling of bands of dentils and acanthus leaves
  • image SM Adam volume 11/180

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Ceiling for the Anti room at Hatch House in Kent

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (422 x 296)

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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