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  • image SM Adam volume 3/100

Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/100

Purpose

[12] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the square second drawing room, 1771, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan, and a circular frame of fluting attended by roundels within squares, and the whole is enclosed within a shaped x-shape frame, with tablets containing arabesques in each corner, and outside this x-shape are festoons of bell flowers supporting oval medallions in each corner, at the centre of each side they support a peltoid shield, or a segmental compartment containing a rosette

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (191 x 181)

Hand

Robert Adam

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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