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[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1770, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/148
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, divided into two compartments by a band composed of enclosed rosettes, scrolled hearts, and lozenge-shaped medallions, and each compartment containing a central oval roundel, one being a rosette, and the other a medallion within a fan, encircled by an oval frame attended by figure-of-eight wreaths, and set against an x-shaped arrangement of foliage
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Mr Fermors Drawing Room
Signed and dated
- 1770
datable to 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (360 x 246)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
IV
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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