[4] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1769

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  - Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)
    - Preliminary designs and record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room, 1769 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/114

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1769

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosettes, within a fan ornamented with enclosed rosettes, and encircled by a band of Vitruvian scroll, festoons, and peltoid shields, and with a roundel in each corner, containing an urn, and flanked by foliage (verso) rough elevation of a wall-mounted monument surmounted by sphinxes

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Ld Lisburne and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (311 x 413)

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

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