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[1] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the ante room and first drawing room, 1773; it is not known if these designs were executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/141
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the ante room and first drawing room, 1773; it is not known if these designs were executed
Aspect
Rough plan of two ceilings. The ante room ceiling on the left-hand side has a central medalion and four anthemia enclosed within a lozenge, and a circular frame containing roundels, encircled by four portions of arabesques, and the whole set within a circuar frame ornamented with crockets, and with a triangular compartment containing arabesques in each corner, and a border of Vitruvian scroll. The right-hand ceiling for the first drawing room has a central oval medallion, enclosed within bands of fluting, roundels, and Vitruvian scroll, and encircled by cameos and oval medallions, connected by a wreath, and with a border of guilloche
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Antiroom / 1st Drawing Room / 2 Ceilings for Lord Stanleys front Rooms and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1773
datable to 1773
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (318 x 189)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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