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[71] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the Etruscan dressing room, 1772
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/210
Purpose
[71] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the Etruscan dressing room, 1772
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central x-shape arrangement of guilloche, containing a figurative medallion, arabesques and calyx, and encircled by anthemia supported by urns on pedestals supported by sphinxes, bows, festoons, rosettes, calyx and peltoid shields, and with a patera enclosed by guilloche and drops of calyx in each corner, and with rectangular bordering panels at either end, containing enclosed rosettes, arabesques, calyx and rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
1st Cieling for the Dressing room at Osterley
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, terre verte and cerulean blue on laid paper (448 x 414)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 76
Harris, 2001, pp. 177, 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 76
Harris, 2001, pp. 177, 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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