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[90] Design for a ceiling for the great staircase, 1769, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/155
Purpose
[90] Design for a ceiling for the great staircase, 1769, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central oval compartment, containing an enclosed rosette, framed by a fan, and a lozenge-shaped frame of Vitruvian scroll, and four calyx, with an enclosed rosette at each end, and an enclosed half rosette at each side, within an oval and cusped frame, and accompanied by four arrangements arabesques and tubular flowers
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Great Staircase at Gawthorpe House in Yorkshire The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (454 x 288)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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