[26] Preliminary design for the front drawing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1772, as executed

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    - Mansfield Street, London: designs for interior decoration of eight houses, built as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1772-75 (35)
      - Mansfield Street, number 22
        Preliminary design for the ceiling for the front drawing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1772, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/70

Purpose

[26] Preliminary design for the front drawing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a chimneybreast on one of the long walls, with a central square compartment, containing a central medallion, enclosed within a circular frame ornamented with crockets and miniature rosettes, and within a second, large circular frame ornamented with ovals, and pedestals supporting tubular flowers, and flanked by winged griffons, and with a triangular compartment of rinceaux in each corner, and the central square is flanked by rectangular compartments, containing a repeating pattern of enclosed rosettes, festoons, and swags

Scale

to a scale 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of front Drawing room at Sir Edward Derings in Mansfield Street / (and in pencil) Pink / Purple / Green / Light Pink / Green / Purple / Darker Green

Signed and dated

1772
1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (624 x 445)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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