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[22] Record drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room for John Hobcraft, 1772, as executed
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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.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 86
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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