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[10] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room (originally the great eating room), 1766, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/193
Purpose
[10] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room (originally the great eating room), 1766, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central elliptical band of guilloche, containing a rosette enclosed within fluting, cable moulding, and festoons, and outside the elliptical compartment are arabesques, swags, calyx, anthemia, tubular flowers and rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Drawing room at Ugbrooke in Devonshire (in the hand of William Adam) and a feint, illegible pencil inscription at the top of the sheet
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (383 x 272)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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