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[4] Design for a ceiling for another drawing room, 1767, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/250
Purpose
[4] Design for a ceiling for another drawing room, 1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a square coved ceiling, with a circular compartment within the central flat, containing a central rosette, enclosed within a fan, and a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, a shaped octagon ornamented with calyx, bands of cable moulding, and a band of guilloche, part of which encloses rosettes, and with drops of calyx in between, and outside the circular compartment there is a pencil-drawn peltoid shield hung from a lion mask, and the cove is ornamented with pencil-drawn festoons
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Drawing room for Sir Fletcher Norton / (and in feint pencil) Light Green / Light Pink / Dark Pink / Light Green / Green / Light Pink / £ / Green
Signed and dated
- 1767
datable to 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (453 x 457)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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