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  • image SM Adam volume 8/51

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/51

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a shaped octagonal frame ornamented with anthemia, and encircled by eight medallions, and a shaped octagonal frame ornamented with scrolled hearts, and with rinceaux in each corner, and with two details of mouldings below

Scale

not to scal

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (607 x 443)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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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