[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the saloon, c1767, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)
    - Interior decoration: 1765-76
      - Preliminary design and alternative record drawings for a ceiling for the saloon, 1767, Adam volume 11/227 as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/77

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the saloon, c1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a cove ornamented with medallions within lozenges of drops of calyx and fans. The central flat has a central square compartment containing a rosette enclosed within a fan; and with rinceaux enclosed within a lozenge-shaped frame; and encircled by peltoid shields, and enclosed rosettes; and within a border of rinceaux. The central compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a central rosette within a lozenge, flanked by vesica-shaped and triangular compartments of rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1767
datable to c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (563 x 404)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

XDB&C within a cartouche

Literature

Sands, 2012, Volume 2, pp. 105-106
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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