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  • image SM Adam volume 13/75

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/75

Purpose

[22] Record drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, with a chimneybreast on one wall, and with a central roundel, enclosed within a circular frame ornamented with crockets, calyx and anthemia, and the whole set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by festoons, roundels enclosed within wreaths, and peltoid shields, and in each corner is a rosette, enclosed within a segmental fan, and a segmental frame ornamented with crockets

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

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

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (540 x 454)

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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