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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/74

Purpose

[5] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room (later the library), 1770, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a ceiling as Adam volume 12/73

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Eating room for Mr. Farmor (sic) / (and in pencil) Sitting room Mr Fermor / done October 29t 1770

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    Octr. 25t. 1770.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte and pink on laid paper (482 x 353)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS / IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
Country Life, 1938, p. 135
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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