[81] Alternative finished drawing for a ceiling for Lord Stanley's dressing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Alternative design and finished drawing for Lord Stanley's dressing room ceiling, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/138

Purpose

[81] Alternative finished drawing for a ceiling for Lord Stanley's dressing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a lozenge-shaped frame composed of volutes, with an apron of calyx and festoons, and with four drops supporting vesica-shaped medallions, connected by a circular wreath of poppies

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Bed Chamber Parlor Story at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / not executed / (and in pencil) Bed Chamber / Rose Rose has / this / Plaine Cieling

Signed and dated

1774
1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdigris and pink on laid paper (456 x 355)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS / IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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