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  • image SM Adam volume 11/78

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/78

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the great room at Bowood, 1763

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, coved ceiling. The corners of the cove are ornamented with masks, urns, anthemia, and rinceaux, and the sides of the cove ornamented with octagons and square containing rosettes. The central flat is ornamented with a pattern of contiguous circles containing paterae encircled by either framed of fluting, or wreaths, and with rinceaux between each circle

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Great Room at Bowood Park

Signed and dated

  • June 1763
    Robt Adam Architect 1763 / June 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (507 x 366)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
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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