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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/95

Purpose

[8] Design for a ceiling for the hall, 1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central rosette encircled by fluting, cable moulding, and a fan (in feint pencil), and framed by a band of reed and ribbon entwined with festoons and wreaths of bell flowers, with additional rosettes and festoons and wreaths of bell flowers drawn in feint pencil

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Lord Willoughby de Broke at Compton

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (426 x 312)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
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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