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[23] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the great dining room, 1766, executed with minor alterations
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/181
Purpose
[23] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the great dining room, 1766, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central patera, enclosed by bands of acanthus leaves, enclosed anthemia, and Vitruvian scroll, framed by rinceau, and four rosettes encircled within frames of cable moulding, and the whole enclosed within a shaped x-shape arrangement, with a lunette containing an urn and rinceau one each side. The central compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing rosettes and anthemia within shaped x-shape arrangements
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Great Dining Room at Hatch House in Kent. The Seat of Sir Edward Knatchbull Bart and some dimensions given / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) Sides exact / Centre altered
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (628 x 455)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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