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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.

Level

Drawing

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