[4] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the Duchess of Bolton's dressing room, as executed, 1770

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Bolton House, Southampton Row, London: designs for interior decoration for the 6th Duke of Bolton, June 1770 - August 1777, demolished 1913 (30)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for the ceiling of the Duchess of Bolton's dressing room, as executed, 1770 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/29

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the Duchess of Bolton's dressing room, as executed, 1770

Aspect

Rough plan of a square coved ceiling with a segmental bow. The decoration of the square arranged in a curved x-shape form and with a central octagon containing a figurative roundel and with quadrants in the corners; the bow with a fan pattern

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Duchess of Bolton's Dressing Room

Signed and dated

June 1770
June 1770

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid paper (225 x 175)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Stillman, 1966, p. 104
Harris, 1995, pp. 70, 75
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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