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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/71

Purpose

[24] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for William Grantham, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of scrolled hearts and enclosed rosettes, and with a central square compartment, containing a medallion, encircled by frames of cable moulding, calyx, festoons, and enclosed rosettes connecting with segmental compartments on each side, containing segmental paterae, enclosed within bands of calyx, and between the segmental compartments are drops of calyx running into each corner, and supporting a vesica-shaped medallion, and the central square is flanked by rectangular compartments, containing rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight reeding, and with double calyx in between

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Mansfield Street (in pencil) / Cieling of front Drawing room at Mr. Grantham's in Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (610 x 447)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
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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