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  • image SM Adam volume 8/101

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/101

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for Lady Beauclerk Diana's dressing room, 1770, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a ceiling, centred on a figurative roundel, encircled by geometric patterns, anthemia, further roundels, oval figurative panels, swags, and in the corners are shown paired sphinxes in profile

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Cieling for Lady Dn Beauclerk / Chimney / Mr Adam put this in Pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (556 x 446)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
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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