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[5] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1767
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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