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  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/33

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/33

Purpose

[64] Preliminary design for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plans of two variant rectangular ceilings, one with a central rosette within a oval panel, set against an x-shape arrangement, and with festoons around the edges, and the other being a compartmental ceiling with a central square containing an enclosed rosette encircled by festoons and four roundels, framed by octagonal and elongated octagonal compartments containing rosettes and grisaille

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

This Sketch it is imagined will answer for the flatt / part of the Cieling of Sr Nathl Cursons Hall of which / the Cove to be done with Pannelling also

Signed and dated

  • 1760-1761
    date range: 1760-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (194 x 201)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
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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