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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/41

Purpose

[34] Alternative preliminary design for a ceiling for the second drawing room, c1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a ceiling with a square compartment containing a central medallion enclosed within bands of ornamentation and surrounded by four paterae. Beyond this there are part enclosed corner rosettes, festoons and figurative tablets
  • image SM Adam volume 8/41

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (208 x 160)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 2001, p. 365, n. 39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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