[19] Record drawing for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1778, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - 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 second drawing room, 1778, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/50

Purpose

[19] Record drawing for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central roundel enclosing a rosette, encircled by a fan ornamented with calyx and a band of rosettes, and bordered by husks. Beyond this, the ceiling corners are ornamented with figurative tablets, which are surmounted by ornamental fountains flanked by swans, and have aprons consisting of pendent peltoid shields and flora. In between the tablets there are lozenges enclosing rosettes, and all this is linked with festoons of beading. The ceiling is bordered by a band of compartments ornamented with masks flanked by swans all enclosed within wreaths, and alternating with compartments containing foil roundels enclosing rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the second Room at Sir Abraham Hume’s in Hill street / 50

Signed and dated

Dec 1778
Dec.r 1778-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris on laid paper (450 x 355)

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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