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  • image SM Adam volume 13/60

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/60

Purpose

[6] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for William Cobbett, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central enclosed oval patera, encircled by a frame of enclosed acanthus leaves, and Vitruvian scroll, drops of calyx, swags, rosettes enclosed within lozenges, medallions, festoons, peltoid shields, and four tablets containing putti, and supporting birds, and with a rosette enclosed within a fan and a band of anthemia in each corner

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the front Drawing room at Mr. Cobbett's House Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (508 x 365)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Index p. 42
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 83
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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