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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/77

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling, N.D.

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central square, containing a central roundel enclosed by a fan, containing guilloche enclosing rosettes, and encircled by festoons, four small roundels enclosed by wreathes, and four lunette-shaped compartments containing arabesques. The central fan and lunette panels are divided by bands of reeding

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In pencil) Cieling for Mr Stewart / Purple / Blue / Green / Blue / Pink and some dimensions given (in pen)

Signed and dated

  • N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (368 x 407)

Hand

Adam office hand, with pencil inscriptions in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

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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