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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.
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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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