[10] Design for a ceiling for the lesser dining parlour (now the drawing room), 1759

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Hatchlands, Surrey: executed designs for interior decoration for the Rt Hon. Admiral Edward Boscawen, 1758-59 (15)
    - Alternative designs for a ceiling for the lesser dining parlour (now the drawing room), 1759 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/6

Purpose

[10] Design for a ceiling for the lesser dining parlour (now the drawing room), 1759

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central rosette, encircled by a band of husks and framed by a wreath of bay leaves entwined with olive leaves, and with four inset octagonal medallions in the corners

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Admiral Boscawen

Signed and dated

1759
1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (306 x 379)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoit Dewez, with inscription in the hand of William Adam with an addition by A.T. Bolton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 141; Volume II, Index p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 17 February - 9 May 2015

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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