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[31] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the ante room for Sir Edward Dering, 1772
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 13/69
Purpose
[31] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the ante room for Sir Edward Dering, 1772
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a chimneybreast on one of the short walls, and the ceiling is ornamented with repeating compartments divided by serpentine bands of ribbons, rosettes, and calyx, with an enclosed rosette, within a shaped octagon, ornamented with anthemia and calyx in each compartment, and with a border of connected enclosed rosettes, and a frame of reed and ribbon
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Anti room at Sir Edwd. Dering's in Mansfield Street
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes of pink and olive green on laid paper (443 x 358)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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