[10] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the great room, 1765, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
      - Alternative preliminary design, design, and finished drawing for the ceiling for the great room, 1765, drawing 10 executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/40

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the great room, 1765, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling surrounded by heavily moulded coving. There is a central circular canvas depicting a charioteer encircled by circular panels containing eagles and anthemia alternately. In each corner are small portraits busts

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Dining Room at The Right Honble The Earl of Coventry's House in Piccadilly In the Style of the painted ornaments of the Ancients and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

June 1765
Robt Adam Architect / June 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including Prussian blue, red, and Indian yellow on laid paper (296 x 416)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 2001, p. 57
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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