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[9] Preliminary design showing the second scheme for the ceiling for the circular room, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/137
Purpose
[9] Preliminary design showing the second scheme for the ceiling for the circular room, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a circular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within circular frames of fluting, a fan of alternating anthemia and calyx, winged griffons and oxen, and Etruscan-style foliage, all set within a shaped octagon, ornamented with naturalistic anthemia, with an enclosed rosette on each side, set within a wreath of bell flowers, and connected together by a large circular frame of bell flowers, and each is supporting a figurative tablet, and on each point of the octagon is an enclosed anthemion, connecting with a segmental compartment containing a segmental patera, enclosed within a fan ornamented with calyx
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Grey / Green / Dark / Dark / Grey / Dark / Grey / Yellw / Yellw / Green / Cornice (all in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1774
datable to 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including sepia and cerulean blue on laid paper (453 x 309)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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