[2] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1771, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Curzon Street, number 30, Westminster: designs for interior decoration, furniture and plate for the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, 1771-73 (18)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawings for the ceiling and walls of the drawing room, 1771, executed with minor alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/91

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1771, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular segmentally vaulted ceiling with an apsidal end, and the central vault is ornamented with a repeating pattern composed of an enclosed oval medallion alternating with a quatrefoil motif, with a central enclosed cameo, encircled by four anthemia enclosed within wreaths, and these quatrefoils are flanked on all four sides by enclosed rosettes and anthemia within lozenges, which connect them to the neighbouring quatrefoil, and this pattern is flanked on the short sides by bands of scrolled hearts and lozenges, and the apse is segmental, and ornamented with a rosette, enclosed within a fan of petals, a fan, and a frame of Vitruvian scroll, and beyond this there are drops of calyx, and cameos enclosed within wreaths, supported by pedestals, and surmounted by tubular flowers

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Drawing room at The Right Honble Henry Frederick Thynne’s in Curzon Street

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and terre verte on laid paper (614 x 446)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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