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  • image SM Adam volume 11/109

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/109

Purpose

[8] Design for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Unfinished plan of a circular ceiling with a central rosette encircled by cable moulding, a band of anthemia enclosed by scrolled hearts, festoons, medallions, urns supported by tripods, and a border of arabesques and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the Temple

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (337 x 423)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Scara or Benedetto Napoletano

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
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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