[15] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1779, unexecuted

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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 and record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1779, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/52

Purpose

[15] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central tripartite design consisting of a square compartment ornamented with a medallion surrounded by ribbons, festoons of calyx, and peltoid shields. This is enclosed within a band of calyx and rosettes, with quarter-patera encircled by enclosed anthemia beyond. The square compartment is bordered by fret, and flanked by rectangular compartments ornamented with cameos encircled by bands of enclosed anthemia, forming roundels. The roundels are separated by rosettes, tubular flowers and anthemia. The rectangular compartments are bordered with bands of beading and calyx. Beyond the tripartite design, there are cameos set within lozenges, flanked by winged sphinxes, all on a band of fluting. This is linked by a further band of scrolled hearts. Beyond this there is a border consisting of half-medallions, bands of enclosed anthemia, and corner rosettes, all enclosed within bands of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Drawing room at Sir Abraham Hume’s at Wormleybury. / 52 / (and in pencil) Window / Window / Window / Door / and faint pencil inscription

Signed and dated

Jan 1779
11. Janry 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, Indian yellow, pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (570 x 439)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

Vol XIV 52 34 (in modern curatorial hand)

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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