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[29] Design for the ceiling for the dining room, 1761, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/16
Purpose
[29] Design for the ceiling for the dining room, 1761, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling with a border of urns, festoons and masks. The central compartment is ornamented with a central rosettes, fans, a band of Vitruvian scroll, and anthemia, and the outer compartments have thyrsi bound with vines and fans
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling for the Dining Room / at Sion / not executed
Signed and dated
- 1761
1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (295 x 181)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 65
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 65
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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