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[14] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room for Lord Scarsdale, 1772, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 13/64
Purpose
[14] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room for Lord Scarsdale, 1772, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling with a central circular compartment containing a rosette encircled by enclosed anthemia within a diamond, framed by swags, drops of calyx, wreaths, urns, within a curved x-shape arrangement, flanked by oval medallions, griffons and festoons. There are outer lunette-shaped compartments containing urns, arabesques, calyx and anthemia, and with a border of half figures and anthemia. With overdrawn pencil annotations to the central compartment
Scale
bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling of the front Drawing room at Lord Scarsdale's in Mansfield Street
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris on laid paper (606 x 425)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 96, and Index p. 42
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
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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