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  • image SM Adam volume 11/143

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/143

Purpose

[52] Finished drawing for an alternative ceiling design for Mrs Lascelles's dressing room, 1766

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of guilloche, with a central square containing a central patera, enclosed by a fan, anthemia, and a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, and with a peltoid shield in each corner. The central square is flanked by rectangular compartments containing anthemia, calyx and rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Ladys Dressing Room at Gawthorpe and some dimensions given (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    Robt Adam Archt / 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (385 x 306)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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