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  • image SM Adam volume 12/106

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/106

Purpose

[23] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the oval parlour, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of an oval ceiling, with a central lozenge-shaped medallion, enclosed within a fluted lozenge-shaped frame, with an oval medallion on each side, enclosed within a wreath of bell flowers, supporting arabesques, and a rectangular frame of calyx, and with an apron of anthemia on each corner, and a medallion within a wreath of ivy on each side

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Ceiling for the Oval Room in the parlour Story at Mr Baron Grant's

Signed and dated

  • 20/08/1772
    Adelphi Augst 20t. 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (470 x 373)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Survey of London, 1966, p. 71
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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