[8] Finished drawing for a ceiling for a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - La Trappe (later Brandenburg House), Hammersmith, Middlesex: designs for a garden pavilion, possibly executed, and a dressing room chimneypiece for George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe, 1762 (9)
    - Finished drawings for ceilings for a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/89

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for a ceiling for a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a circular ceiling, with a central rosettes, enclosed by a fan, a circular band of Vitruvian scroll, a fan of figurative tablets, and a band of anthemia and urns, enclosed rosettes, and festoons

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Ceiling for the Circular Room / N.B. This ceiling would answer extremely well, if the mouldings were seen in Stucco & Gilt, & the Figures & c painted / for Lord Melcombe's Garden Building (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1762
1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (342 x 338)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013

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

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