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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/72

Purpose

[29] Unfinished design for a ceiling for the library, as executed, 1761

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling, ornamented with a central star enclosing anthemia, and within a circular band of Vitruvian scroll, encircled by festoons and fans, and in the compartments to either side are quatrefoils of festoons enclosing anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Library at Shardeloes The Seat of William Drake Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (442 x 296)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
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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