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  • image SM Adam volume 12/147

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/147

Purpose

[56] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the circular closet, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a circular ceiling, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan ornamented with drops of calyx, and circular frames ornamented with enclosed rosettes, poppies supported by wreaths of bell flowers enclosing rosettes, swags, and arabesques, with an apron of festoons of beading and calyx, supporting vesica-shaped medallions enclosed within wreaths of beading, alternating with drops composed of a wreath, calyx, arabesques, and wreath of beading, and terminating in medallions, all supporting bell flower festoons, connecting putti, which flank enclosed anthemia, surmounted by tubular flowers, and supported by winged sphinxes, and with a circular border

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Circular Dressing Room / at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) Passage above / A pink / [various illegibly feint pencil inscriptions]

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green and violet on laid paper (340 x 433)

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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