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[15] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the music room, 1765, executed with minor alterations
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/132
Purpose
[15] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the music room, 1765, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan of a square ceiling ornamented with a central medallion, enclosed by lutes, and foliage, within a shaped decagon, surrounded by a circle of medallions, festoons, and a circular frame of urns and enclosed rosettes connected by festoons, and with heraldic roundels containing birds in each corner, flanked by rinceaux
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Music Room at Gawthorp House in Yorkshire. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esqr
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow and Prussian blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (512 x 477)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, p. 70
Harris, 2001; p. 148
Harris, 2007, p. 90
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 70
Harris, 2001; p. 148
Harris, 2007, p. 90
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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