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