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  • image SM Adam volume 11/211

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/211

Purpose

[72] Record drawing for a ceiling for the Etruscan dressing room, 1772

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 11/210, but with one peltoid shield replaced with an oval medallion

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

1st Cieling for the Dressing room at Osterley / A Duplicate / a picture

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, terre verte and cerulean blue on laid paper (461 x 386)

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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