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[38] Finished drawing for the ceiling of the Etruscan dressing room, 1773, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/145
Purpose
[38] Finished drawing for the ceiling of the Etruscan dressing room, 1773, executed with alterations
Aspect
Plan of a square ceiling, with a bow on each side, divided by bands of bell flowers and scrolled hearts, and the central flat contains a medallion, enclosed within a circular frame of rosettes and laurel leaf tips, and this is encircled by anthemia, and a shaped octagonal frame, and set within a circular frame of reed and ribbon, encircled by anthemia, and octaongal frames of beading and guilloche, with an apron of festoons of beading, and drops of calyx supporting tablets of enclosed rosettes flanked by festoons, and figurative medallions enclosed within wreaths of beading, connected by bands of calyx to L-shaped lablets in each corner, containing urns flanked by winged sphinxes with arabesque tails, and the apses are ornamented with segmental paterae, enclosed within a segmental frame of fluting, and a fan ornamented with beading, and anthemia
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Bow Dressing Room one pair Story at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square
Signed and dated
- 1773
1773.
Medium and dimensions
(1) Pen, pencil, wash and voloured washes including terre verte, Prussian blue, and Indian yellow on laid paper (538 x 444)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 70; Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, pp. 362, 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, pp. 362, 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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