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[5] Record drawing showing the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/123
Purpose
[5] Record drawing showing the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central enclosed rosettes, encircled by anthemia, and within a shaped octagonal fluted frame, encircled by enclosed rosettes and festoons
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Great Room for the Rt. Honble Hercules Rowley Esqr / Mary St Dublin (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (336 x 267)
Hand
Adma office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
Harris, 1973, pl. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1973, pl. 38
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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