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