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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/203

Purpose

[38] Record drawing for a ceiling for the new hall in the west range, 1767, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, compartmental ceiling, divided by bands of scrolled hearts, with a central rectangular compartment containing a peltoid shield, and elliptical bands of arabesques and Vitruvian scroll, with a patera at the centre, and with bordering square and rectangular compartments containing enclosed paterae, arabesques, urns, and an anthemion enclosed within a scrolled heart

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Hall at Osterley / Complete copy of this at Osterley (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (570 x 438)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 69
Beard, 1978, p. 41
Rowan, 1988, p. 71
Harris, 2001, p. 351
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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