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  • image SM Adam volume 11/2

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/2

Purpose

[7] Alternative preliminary design for the ceiling of the drawing room, 1758-59

Aspect

Plan of a ceiling with an inner rectangle containing a large oval ringed with palmette and anthemia in scrolled hearts. There are alternatives for thee outer border incorporating medallions, birds and half griffons amid arabesques on one side, and urns, griffons, and putti masks amid arabesques on the other, executed with alterations

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for General Bland at Isleworth

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (539 x 400)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Stillman, 1966, p. 96
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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