Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [56] Design for the ceiling of the square closet, 1765, as executed

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 11/26

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/26

Purpose

[56] Design for the ceiling of the square closet, 1765, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central square compartment containing a rosette, wreaths, crescents, peltoid shields and military trophies, and this compartment is framed by enclosed rosettes within wreaths, arabesques and festoons, and with drops of calyx, urns and anthemia in the corners

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the square Closet / at Sion

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (220 x 281)

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk