[47] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the tapestry room, 1772, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Finished drawings for a ceiling for the tapestry room, 1772, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/206

Purpose

[47] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the tapestry room, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a large central circular compartment containing a figurative medallion encircled by figure-of-eight oak leaves, and set within an octagonal band of fluting, with a lion mask, arabesques, calyx, olive leaves and a peltoid shield on each corner, all within an x-shaped arrangement, framed by bows, festoons, figurative medallions, winged griffons, and swags, and outside the circular compartment is a band of enclosed rosettes in each corner, enclosing calyx and a quarter rosette

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Tapestry room at Osterley

Signed and dated

1772
1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and verdigris on laid paper (576 x 433)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 75
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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