[33] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, roughly as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/103

Purpose

[33] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, roughly as executed

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central medallion, enclosed by festoons, and arabesques, within an x-shaped arrangement, with a rosette enclosed by an octagon in each corner, and encircled by lozenge enclosing medallions, and the central square compartment is flanked on each side is a segmental figurative panel, and at each end by rectangular compartments containing guilloche, and rosettes enclosed by octagons

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Drawing Room for Wm Weddell Esqr / [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]

Signed and dated

21/07/1769
[ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] 21 July 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (288 x 418)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Beard, 1978, p. 61
Harris, 2001, p. 357
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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