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  • image SM Adam volume 8/16

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/16

Purpose

[94] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the gallery, unexecuted, 1765

Aspect

Rough plan of details of two alternative compartmental ceiling designs, one is composed of large and small circles containing rosettes, and fans, with lozenges in between containing medallions, and the other design is composed of large and small hexagons, containing rosettes, and medallions

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    datable to 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (234 x 282)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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

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