[2] Design for a ceiling for the ante room, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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)
      - Preliminary design and design for the ante room ceiling, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/141

Purpose

[2] Design for a ceiling for the ante room, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a circular frame of miniature rosettes and laurel leaf tips, encircled by four anthemia, and a lozenge-shaped frame with an apron of swags and four cameos, all enclosed within a wreath which supports two peltoid shields ornamented with masks and enclosed rosettes, and the whole is enclosed within an oval frame of fluting, rosettes and acanthus leaves, and this is encircled by four portions of arabesques with calyx and rosettes, and set within an oval frame ornamented with crockets, and beyond this there are triangular compartments in each corner, containing an ox skull flanked by festoons, and the whole has a rectangular border ornamented with arabesques and rosettes, and with anthemia and enclosed rosettes in the corners

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Anti Room / at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square.

Signed and dated

1773
1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes of verdigris and Prussian blue on laid paper (427 x 367)

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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