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[4] Design for the ceiling for the hall, 1761, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/14
Purpose
[4] Design for the ceiling for the hall, 1761, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling, divided into large lozenge-shaped compartments containing paterae, and framed by bands of fluting - the central compartment with an alternative frame of anthemia - divided by heavy cross-beams ornamented with anthemia enclosed by lyre-shaped arabesques, and with flower bosses, and with a border of anthemia
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling for the Hall / at Sion
Signed and dated
- 1761
1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (299 x 201)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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