[21] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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 18
        Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/74

Purpose

[21] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a border of guilloche enclosing rosettes, and tablets containing rosettes, and the central flat is divided into three parts, with a central square, with a central medallion, enclosed within circular frames, and a lozenge-shaped frame, and encircled by festoons, four medallions, and four segmental compartments containing urns flanked by winged griffons, and the whole is set within a circular frame of enclosed anthemia, and with festoons and a peltoid shield in each corner, and the central square is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a repeating pattern with a medallion within a circular frame, flanked by rosettes enclosed by lozenges, and flanked by arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the front Drawing room at Mr. Hobcrafts in Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

1772
1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes of verdigris, pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (606 x 442)

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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