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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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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