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  • image SM Adam volume 11/212

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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