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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/127

Purpose

[4] Design for the ceiling for the dining room, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a canted bow on one side, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan, and a circular band of cable moulding, within a circular frame ornamented with anthemia and rosettes, and encircled by festoons, and with a rosette enclosed within a wreath on three sides

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Dining room at Ingress

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, and wash on laid paper (341 x 260)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
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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