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  • image SM Adam volume 11/21

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/21

Purpose

[36] Design for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1761-62, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central compartment containing three octagonal panels, the central octagon containing a large flower, and the outer two containing smaller rosettes framed by festoons and fans. The ground is ornamented with arabesques, and there is a border of medallions, festoons, eagles, arabesques and masks in the corners

Scale

to a scal

Inscribed

Ceiling for the Drawing Room / at Sion / not executed

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (305 x 196)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 98
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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