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  • image SM Adam volume 11/56

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/56

Purpose

[116] Record drawings for unknown ceilings, 1761

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite rectangular ceiling, with an x-shaped arrangement in the central compartment, ornamented with a central rosette, fluting, lion mask, arabesques, calyx, peltoid shields and medallions. The outer compartments are ornamented with a diamond pattern composed of lotus flowers, enclosing rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Kedleston / Kedleston (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (408 x 246)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
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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