[22] Unfinished preliminary design for a ceiling for the tea pavilion, c1763-65, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
    - Designs for buildings in the park
      - Unfinished preliminary design for a ceiling for the tea pavilion, c1763-65, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/201

Purpose

[22] Unfinished preliminary design for a ceiling for the tea pavilion, c1763-65, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a shallow domed, octagonal ceiling with a central rosette, encircled by drops of calyx, enclosed anthemia, an octagonal band of Vitruvian scroll, festoons, and drops of bell flowers, and with pencil-drawn annotation on the left-hand side, showing a section of the ceiling

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Cottage at Moor Park

Signed and dated

1763-1765
date range: 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (486 x 418)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
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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