[4] Record drawing for a ceiling for the first drawing room, as executed, 1778

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Record drawing for a ceiling for the first drawing room, 1778, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/49

Purpose

[4] Record drawing for a ceiling for the first drawing room, as executed, 1778

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling ornamented with a central figurative roundel, enclosed within a fan and bordered with festoons. This is enclosed within a band of vine forming a lozenge, and there are corner fans enclosing anthemia. All this is enclosed within a further band ornamented with half-rosettes, forming an oval. Beyond this there are cameos, and an oval border of husks. The ceiling corners are ornamented with figurative roundels enclosed within wreaths of husks, with arabesques set between

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the first room at Sir Abraham Hume’s in Hill Street / 49 / faint pencil inscription

Signed and dated

Dec 1778
Dec.r 1778-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, violet, pink, and Naples yellow on laid paper (450 x 304)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1917, p. 2
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 304
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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