[2] Design for a ceiling for the hall, 1777, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
    - Design for a ceiling for the hall, 1777, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/21

Purpose

[2] Design for a ceiling for the hall, 1777, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette encircled by a fan and enclosed within a roundel. Beyond this there are festoons of calyx, ox skulls, and further rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight calyx

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Hall at Wormleybury the Seat of Sir Abraham Hume Bart.

Signed and dated

Sept 1777
Adelphi 27. Sep.t 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (606 x 446)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
Harris, 2001, p. 71
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 250
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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