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[4] Design for a ceiling for the dining room (later the library), 1770, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/73
Purpose
[4] Design for a ceiling for the dining room (later the library), 1770, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central patera, enclosed within a fan of enclosed acanthus leaves, alternating with calyx, and set within an oval frame, encircled by arabesques and anthemia, and set within a shaped lozenge frame, encircled by garlands, and the whole is set within a rectangular compartments with segmental fans in each corner, and with an outer frame of guilloche, which divide borders ornamented with flower fulled urns, supported by arabesques, and flanked by winged griffons with arabesque tails, and with square compartments in each corner of the border, containing portrait medallions
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Eating room for Mr. Farmor (sic) / Mr Fermor Eating room (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1770
1770.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (599 x 456)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
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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