[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1764, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
    - House and interior
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1764, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/111

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, compartmental ceiling divided by bands of guilloche, and with apsidal ends screened by columns. The central flat is ornamented with a central medallion, encircled by bands of griffins, anthemia and winged half-figures, and figurative panels and medallions in the corners. The apses are ornamented with a central patera, triangular panels containing arabesques and half-putti, and a border of anthemia and strigils

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Library at Kenwood House in Middlesex

Signed and dated

1764
James Adam Archt 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (614 x 363)

Hand

James Adam

Watermark

Fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Beard, 1978, p. 47
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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

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