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[6] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for William Cobbett, 1772, as executed
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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.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 83
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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