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  • image SM Adam volume 11/208

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/208

Purpose

[55] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the state bedchamber, 1772

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central elliptical figurative medallion enclosed within a band of enclosed anthemia, and guilloche containing further figurative medallions, framed by festoons held by winged griffons supported by pedestals composed of human figures, and the festoons support drops composed of bows, calyx, tubular flowers, oval figurative medallions, arabesques, birds, and enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieiling of the Bed Chamber at Osterley. not executed

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and verdigris on laid paper (487 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 2001, p. 352
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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