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  • image SM Adam volume 11/96

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/96

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for the ceiling and recess ceiling of the little drawing room, 1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central medallion enclosed within an octagonal compartment, encircled by octagonal and circular medallions and rectangular panels containing griffons, and with a ground ornamented with arabesques, wreaths, rosettes and peltoid shields

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the little Drawing room at Audley End

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (312 x 275)

Hand

Adam office hand, with pencil annotations in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
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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