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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/194

Purpose

[19] Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central rosette encircled by a band of Vitruvian scroll, four anthemia and calyx, and a lozenge-shaped band which encloses a patera at each corner, and with feint alternative pencil underdrawing

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Staircase for The Right Honble Lord Clifford / at Ugbrooke (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (423 x 355)

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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