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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/66

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the principal room, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, ornamented with three contiguous oval frames, ornamented with central medallions, enclosed within fluted frames ornamented with crockets, and bands composed of enclosed anthemia, and between these three oval compartments are anthemia and calyx, supported by semicircular compartments along the edges, containing enclosed rosettes flanked by festoons, and alternating with rectangular tablets, and the ceiling has a border of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Ceiling of the Principal Room at Gen'l Fitzroys / Door / Door

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (450 x 312)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
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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