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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for half of a circular ceiling showing two alternative radiating patterns of circles and rectangles with rosette and anthemion decoration. Below are details of coffers in pencil.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/45
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for half of a circular ceiling showing two alternative radiating patterns of circles and rectangles with rosette and anthemion decoration. Below are details of coffers in pencil.
Aspect
Ceiling plan, details
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen on grey washed paper
217 x 343
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Notes
This design, and the variation on it in Adam vol.7/46, are both presumably for ceilings of the circular hall in James Adam's Parliament scheme of 1762/63, although the decoration contains no national or royal symbols such as are found in other designs for the scheme; the grey paper would suggest that they are part of such a set of drawings. The composition here is similar to that found in several drawings by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82) in Adam volume 26, a volume that was also connected with James Adam.
Level
Drawing
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