[41] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the square dressing room, c1773

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
      - Preliminary design for a ceiling for the square dressing room, c1773 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/132

Purpose

[41] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the square dressing room, c1773

Aspect

Plan of a ceiling centrepiece ornamented with a rosette surrounded by arabesques supporting urns? all set within a cruciform. The cruciform is surrounded by swags suspending peltoid shields and a quatrefoil band. Beyond this there are suspended cameos

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Square Dressing Room / joining New Bed Chamber / One pair Story / The Earl of Ashburnham

Signed and dated

c1773
c1773

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (294 x 337)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Shield surmounted by fleur de lis

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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