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  • image SM Adam volume 11/145

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/145

Purpose

[41] Design for a ceiling for Edwin Lascelles's bedroom, 1766

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette enclosed by a fan, a band of rosettes enclosed by linked circles, festoons, and eight enclosed rosettes hung from bows, and this within a cusped octagonal frame, ornamented with fans and calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for Mr Lascelles own Bed Chamber at Gawthorpe

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    Robt Adam Archt 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (419 x 359)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

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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