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[7] Preliminary design showing the first scheme for the ceiling for the circular room, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 3/109
Purpose
[7] Preliminary design showing the first scheme for the ceiling for the circular room, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Unfinished rough plan of a circular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a frame of enclosed rosettes, and enclosed anthemia, and set within a shaped lozenge, ornamented with winged sphinxes supported by tubular flowers in each corner, and on each side there is an apron of festoons supporting an oval medallion, and the x-shaped arrangement has a pedestal at each corner, ornamented with paw feet, ram masks, festoons, and an enclosed patera, and these are connected by large circular frames of bell flowers and enclosed anthemia
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Sketch for the Honble Mrs Fitzroys / Circular Dressing Room
Signed and dated
- December 1774
Decembr. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (201 x 236)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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