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[5] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the ante room, 1769, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/6
Purpose
[5] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the ante room, 1769, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a chimneybreast on one of the long sides, and with a central patera enclosed within a fan of stiff leaf, an oval frame of fluting, acanthus leaves enclosed within triangles, and with a border composed of connected rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, and with a rough pencil-drawn plan for a rectangular ceiling to the left-hand side
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Anti room at Col. Burgoyne's in Hertford Street / 19 by 14 (in pencil) / 2d Room 1 pr (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte, pink and violet within a single ruled border on laid paper (558 x 445)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, and with pencil-drawn annotations in the hand of Robert Adam
Watermark
D&CBLAUW
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Draper, 1998, fig. 13
Draper 1999, p. 127
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Draper, 1998, fig. 13
Draper 1999, p. 127
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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