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[73] Record drawing for a ceiling for the Etruscan dressing room, 1772, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/212
Purpose
[73] Record drawing for a ceiling for the Etruscan dressing room, 1772, as executed
Aspect
Plan as Adam volume 11/210, but with an alternative colour scheme, and an alternative central medallion, oval figurative medallions in place of peltoid shields, and with a slightly alternative arrangement of paterae, calyx and anthemia in each corner
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Etruscan Dressing room at Osterley / (and in feint pencil) Yellow / Straw coloured [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]g. Do white [ _ _ _ _ _ ] / with the ornament [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue, sepia, and terre verte on laid paper (577 x 460)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 76
Harris, 2001, p. 177
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 76
Harris, 2001, p. 177
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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