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SM Adam volume 13/144

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central chimneybreast on one of the long sides, with a central rosette, enclosed within a shaped octagon, with drops of calyx at each corner connecting to a shaped octagonal frame ornamented with rinceaux, encircled by eight medallions enclosed within fluted frames, and the whole is set within a shaped octagonal frame of rinceaux, and with a rosette enclosed within a segmental band of fluting, and a fan in each corner, and on two sides there is a border of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Back Room one pair of Stairs / at Colonel Burgoyne's

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    Robt Adam Architect 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

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Draper, 1998, fig. 20
Draper, 1999, p. 132
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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