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[23] Design for a ceiling for the ante room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 13/73
Purpose
[23] Design for a ceiling for the ante room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central chimneybreast on one of the long sides, and with a central square figurative tablet, flanked by anthemia and drops of calyx, and encircled by an oval frame ornamented with anthemia, and drops of calyx, and an oval border of cable moulding, and anthemia enclosed within figure-of-eight laurel leaves, and in each corner is an urn, supported by calyx, and surmounted by an anthemion, and the whole has a border of arabesques, urns, and enclosed rosettes
Scale
bar scale of3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Anti room at Mr. Hobcrafts House in Mansfield Street
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (483 x 448)
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.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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