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  • image SM Adam volume 11/28

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/28

Purpose

[61] Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a compartmental rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette within a fan and a band of fret, and with four peltoid shield and arabesques around it, and with outer rectangular compartments of fret containing rosettes, anthemia, calyx and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of Staircase at Sion

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (186 x 136)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

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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