[43] Alternative preliminary design for a ceiling for the circular ante-room, c1775, not executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Preliminary design, alternative preliminary design and finished drawing for a ceiling for the circular ante-room, c1775 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/48

Purpose

[43] Alternative preliminary design for a ceiling for the circular ante-room, c1775, not executed

Aspect

Plan of a circular ceiling ornamented with a central medallion encircled by anthemia, swags and a bad of rosettes and calyx all enclosed within a fan ornamented with a border of Vitruvian scroll. Beyond this there is a band of guilloche and further figurative medallions alternating with pedestals bearing urns linked by festoons of calyx. On one side of the ceiling the pedestals are flanked by griffins. All this is enclosed within a band of fluting

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Small Circular Room at Lady Homes / Portman Square

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (195 x 242)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 51, 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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