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Reference number

Adam vol.7/46

Purpose

London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for half of a circular ceiling showing two alternative designs of radiating circles and rectangular panels with foliage decoration in the central rose.

Aspect

Ceiling plan verso sketch

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen on brown washed paper 215 x 325

Hand

James Adam, Office of

Verso

Geometric forms in pencil, possibly for setting out a ceiling design.

Notes

This design is a companion to that in Adam vol.7/45, and both are 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 brown 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, which was also connected with James Adam.

Level

Drawing

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