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[5] Preliminary design for a ceiling for Sir Fletcher Norton's dressing room, 1767, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/73
Purpose
[5] Preliminary design for a ceiling for Sir Fletcher Norton's dressing room, 1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval rosette, and two flanking rosettes, within a figure-of-eight wreath, and encircled by vines
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Sr Fletcher Nortons Dressing room
Signed and dated
- 1767
datable to 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (327 x 218)
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Rough plan of a simplified version of the recto
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 181
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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