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  • image SM Adam volume 11/126

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/126

Purpose

[4] Record drawings for an unknown ceiling, possibly for a dining room, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with intersecting circles, containing rosettes and thyrsi twined with ivy

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for a room at Burleigh in the hand of William Adam

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (476 x 322)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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