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[4] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1769
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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.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 181
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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