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  • image SM Adam volume 12/107

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/107

Purpose

[21] Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1772, thought to have been executed

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 5/47, but the central patera is enclosed within an oval frame of laurel leaf tips, Vitruvian scroll, and calyx, and with cameos rather than lion masks, and the segmental rosettes and fans in the corners are enclosed within frames of guilloche and calyx, and the flanking rectangular compartments contain urns rather than calyx flanked by arabesques, and have a frame of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Staircase for Mr. Baron Grant.

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (439 x 310)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Survey of London, 1966, p. 71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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