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[24] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for William Grantham, 1772, unexecuted
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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