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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/80

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the library, 1769

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, encircled by fluting and arabesques, within an x-shaped arrangement, and festoons, and with figurative segmental compartments on each edge, and square compartments in each corner, containing an enclosed rosette and calyx, and with a border of cable moulding

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Cieling of Ld Lisburne's Library

Signed and dated

  • c1769
    datable to c1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (362 x 322)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 181
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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