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  • image SM Adam volume 11/242

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/242

Purpose

[5] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1767

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan, and circular frames of cable moulding, encircled by four calyx and anthemia, and within a shaped lozenge-shaped frame of Vitruvian scroll supporting festoons, drops of calyx, and with pencil-drawn enclosed rosettes at each corner, and the whole within an oval fluted frame, and with a medallion within a wreath, and a drop of calyx in each corner

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Mr Olivers Drawing room at Low Layton in Essex

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (437 x 276)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
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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