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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/52

Purpose

[126] Record drawing for the ceiling of the state dressing room, 1761, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with apsidal ends. The central flat has a central roundel of fluting encircled by festoons, drops, a fan of rhomboid panels containing foliate ornamentation or a pedestal supporting a column, and encircled by a hand of enclosed anthemia, and bows, festoons and husks. This central flat has a border of medallions and festoons. The apse heads are ornamented with acanthus leaves, rosettes and drops, wreathes and festoons. With pencil annotations including a band of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Ceiling for Kedleston (in the hand of William Adam) / Sir Ellis Cunliffe (in feint pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (465 x 296)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 50
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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