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  • image SM Adam volume 11/205

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/205

Purpose

[42] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great staircase, 1768, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central octagonal compartment, with enclosed rosettes, half figures, and arabesques at each corner, and with rectangular bordering compartments containing arabesques to either side

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Great Staircase at Osterley / (and in pencil) Wood mld & / canvas picture / this is executed and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (352 x 298)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 2001, p. 352
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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