[9] Design for a ceiling for the library, c1786, not known to have been executed

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  - Claremont Park, (Milburn house), Esher, Surrey, part executed plans, elevations and a section for the house, and elevations for a temple and a bridge (unexecuted), for John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, c1786 (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/53

Purpose

[9] Design for a ceiling for the library, c1786, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling. The central, square panel is ornamented with a rosette, encircled by smaller rosettes and enclosed by a band of interlacing circles. These circles enclose portrait medallions set within wreaths of vine leaves. Beyond this, there are arabesques and corner quarter-rosettes. The square panel is flanked by narrow border strip panels, one of which is ornamented with a band of anthemia, enclosed within a band of scrolled hearts

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

A / A / A / N.B. the mouldings mark’d A to be extended to the frame round the Cieling as to the dotted line / the medallions to be the English Poets / Cieling to Library Claremont

Signed and dated

c1786
c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (254 x 360)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 139
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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