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  • image SM Adam volume 11/253

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/253

Purpose

[2] Alternative record drawing for a ceiling for the great drawing room, 1768

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular tripartite coved ceiling, with a pattern of ovals across the three compartments of the central flat, all bordered with guilloche. An oval medallion in the centre, in the rest fans, and sea-monster medallions in the lozenges. The central flat is bordered in the cove with fans and festoons; griffons, winged sphinxes and arabesques below, with medallions on the long sides and rosettes on the short

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

1st Design of a Cieling for the Drawing room at Saltram

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and colour washes including pink and olive green on laid paper (647 x 436)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
Beard, 1978, p. 13
Harris, 2007, p. 234
For full 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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