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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/110

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the library, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a shallow apse, centred on a medallion, framed by wide bands of enclosed rosettes and guilloche around figurative and foliate panels, one including a griffon

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

1st Sketch of Cieling for the Library at Kenwood

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (436 x 284)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Beard, 1978, p. 47
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 115
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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