[5] Record drawing showing the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed

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    - Langford House, Mary Street, Dublin: designs for interior decoration for the Rt Hon Hercules Langford Rowley and Elizabeth Rowley, Viscountess Langford, 1765 (7)
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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.

Level

Drawing

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