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  • image SM Adam volume 11/225

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/225

Purpose

[10] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room (later the tapestry room), 1767, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling, with circular and semicircular medallions, arranged around a fan enclosing arabesques; and with a diamond pattern in the bordering rectangular compartments

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Ceiling for the Drawing room at Nostel / picture on green ground / picture on Blue ground / Picture c / B / B / C / C / D / D / D / D / D / (and in pencil) 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 8

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and Indian yellow on laid paper (411 x 327)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Sacco, William Hamilton or J.P. Laurent

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Harris, 2001, p. 355
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 219
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, pp. 120-121
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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