[80] Design for a ceiling for Lord Stanley's dressing room, 1774; it is not known of this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - 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)
      - Alternative design and finished drawing for Lord Stanley's dressing room ceiling, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/139

Purpose

[80] Design for a ceiling for Lord Stanley's dressing room, 1774; it is not known of this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, showing alternatives for the ornament, with a central medallion, enclosed within a lozenge-shaped frame, and a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, enclosing four winged sphinxes, and with an apron of vesica-shaped medallions, enclosed within squares on one side, and enclosed rosettes hung from arabesques, all connected by a large circular wreath of poppies, and with segmental compartments in each corner, two of which contain segmental rosettes enclosed within a fan ornamented with anthemia, and the other two contain peltoid shields and double calyx hung from festoons

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Bed Chamber Parlor Story at Lord Stanleys / in Grosvenor Square / not executed

Signed and dated

1774
Adelphi / 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (420 x 341)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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