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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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