[77] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Finished drawing for the library ceiling, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/137

Purpose

[77] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a bow on each side, divided by bands of beading and calyx, and the central flat is ornamented with a medallion, enclsoed wihtin a fan, and a circular fluted frame, with an apron of festoons, and supporting four drops composed of bows, calyx, enclosed rosettes, and arabesques, and flanked by winged griffons at the base, all set within an oval frame, and with a rectangular border ornametned with rosetes enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons, with squares in each corner containing enclosed rosettes, and a figurative tablet on each side, and the apses are ornamented with segmental fans, enclosed within fluted frames, with an apron of festoons, and within a border of guilloche, and rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Bow Dressing Room or Library. Parlor Story / at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) This is drawn at l[arge cropped] / & ready for Mr Ro[se cropped]

Signed and dated

1774
1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte, pink and violet on laid paper (500 x 428)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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