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  • image SM Adam volume 11/215

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/215

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central elliptical compartment composed of guilloche of reed and ribbon, enclosing an elliptical medallion, and four circular medallions. The central elliptical medallion is enclosed within cable moulding, a fan ornamented with masks, and Vitruvian scroll. Outside the guilloche of reed and ribbon are lozenges containing rosettes and calyx, festoons, and peltoid shields ornamented with masks, laurel leaves and calyx, and with bordering compartments containing arabesques and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Back Drawing Room at Robert Child Esqrs House in Berkeley Square

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    Robt Adam Architect 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (621 x 467)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Harris, 2000, p. 43
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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