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  • image SM Adam volume 11/228

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/228

Purpose

[4] Record drawing for a ceiling for the saloon, 1770, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, coved ceiling, with a tripartite central flat, divided by borders of anthemia and rinceaux with a central square compartment containing a rosette, encircled by a fan, within a lozenge-shaped guilloche frame, also enclosing rosettes, and encircled by peltoid shields; and this square is flanked by bordering rectangular compartments containing enclosed rosettes, lozenges, and vesica-shaped compartments containing scrolled hearts. The cove is ornamented with a border of Vitruvian scroll with foliage, medallions and lunettes containing alternating fans, and enclosed drops of calyx

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Saloon at Nostel

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (595 x 440)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Harris, 2001, p. 355
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, pp. 105, 107
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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