[11] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room, 1777, as executed

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  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/22

Purpose

[11] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room, 1777, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite ceiling with a central square compartment ornamented with a medallion encircled by a fan, a band of rosettes, and festoons of husks. All this is enclosed within a roundel of reed and ribbon interspersed with tripods, arabesques, winged sphinxes and tablets. The tablets are ornamented with flora, are surmounted by urns, and have aprons of ribbons, festoons and rosettes within wreaths. All this is surrounded by a band of guilloche enclosing rosettes. The central compartment is flanked by rectangular strip compartments, containing a band of contiguous circles, enclosing masks within wreaths

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 5 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Dining Room at Wormleybury

Signed and dated

Sept 1777
Adelphi / 27. Sep.t 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and cerulean blue on laid paper (660 x 451)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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