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  • image SM Adam volume 11/22

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/22

Purpose

[52] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the gallery, 1761 unexecuted

Aspect

Unfinished plan of a long, thin, rectangular ceiling with a central rectangular recess, with compartments ornamented with lozenges of Vitruvian scroll containing paterae, festoons, fans and arabesques

Scale

bar scale 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Gallery at Sion / not executed (verso) 22

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    August 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (992 x 311)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 64; Beard, 1978, p. 43
Beard, 1978, p. 58
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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