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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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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