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[35] Finished drawing for the ceiling for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room, 1765, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/85
Purpose
[35] Finished drawing for the ceiling for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room, 1765, as executed
Aspect
Plan of an octagonal ceiling, drawn on an octagonal sheet. There is a central octagonal panel with a rosette encircled by enclosed anthemia, swags, garlands and ram masks. The border contains fans, vases, arabesques, griffons and panels of fluting and strigillation
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Lady Coventrys Dressing room Cieling
Signed and dated
- 1765
datable to 1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen, wash and coloured washes including lemon yellow, pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (337 x 342)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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