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[1] Alternative rough preliminary designs for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1771, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/129
Purpose
[1] Alternative rough preliminary designs for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1771, unexecuted
Aspect
Two alternative plans for a rectangular ceiling. The upper design is ornamented with a repeating pattern of a medallion, enclosed within a lozenge, encircled by an x-shaped compartment containing rosettes and anthemia, connected by drops of calyx, and swags of ribbons, and flanked on the borders by figurative segmental compartments. The lower design is composed of a repeating compartmental pattern, composed of enclosed rosettes and calyx, enclosed within a shaped octagonal frame, flanked by shaped octagons containing lozenges to each side, and flanked by shaped compartments above and below, containing a central enclosed rosette, flanked by arabesques, and the whole is set within a border of Vitruvian scroll
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1771
datable to 1771
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on sugar paper (348 x 283)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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