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[2] Preliminary designs for a ceiling for the gallery, 1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/68
Purpose
[2] Preliminary designs for a ceiling for the gallery, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Two rough plans for a square ceiling, one of which has a feint apse drawn in pencil. The top ceiling has a central medallion, encircled by a fan enclosing anthemia, and set within a shaped octagonal frame, encircled by a wreath accompanied by four medallions, and a shaped x-shape frame with an apron of ox skulls, festoons and swags in each corner, and with a border of connected enclosed miniature rosettes. The bottom ceiling has a central medallion, enclosed within a lozenge-shaped frame ornamented with a fans, with an oval medallion flanked by sphinxes and swags on each side, and the whole set within a circular frame, with a fan in each corner, and with a border showing alternative designs, with one side ornamented with Vitruvian scroll and central tablets of arabesques, and the other side with Greek key fret, and L-shaped corner compartments containing rinceaux
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1775
datable to 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (200 x 327)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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