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  • image SM Adam volume 11/237

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/237

Purpose

[6] Record drawing for the flat rectangular ceilings in the gallery, 1767, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with the ornamentation quarter drawn, with a central rectangular compartment containing an oval patera, enclosed within a fan, rinceaux and urns, and set within a fluted lozenge-shaped frame, with triangles in the corners, containing peltoid shields with rinceaux, and the central rectangular compartment is framed by smaller rectangular compartments, containing urns flanked by winged sphinxes with rinceaux tails, and with L-shaped compartments in the corners, containing three shaped square enclosing rosettes and calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of one of the end rooms of the Gallery at Newby

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (471 x 438)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, Giuseppe Sacco or JP Laurent

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Stillman, 1966, p. 79
Beard, 1978, p. 62
Middleton, 1986, p. 53
Harris, 2001, p. 356
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 263
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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