[34] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, as executed

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  - Newby Hall, Ripon, North Yorkshire: designs for the house and interior for William Weddell, 1766-84 (52)
    - Preliminary design and record drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/240

Purpose

[34] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a quarter-drawn rectangular tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartments containing a central medallion within a circular fluted frame, and encircled by festoons, half figures, rinceaux, and vesica-shaped compartments of rosettes and calyx, with alternating squares containing rosettes enclosed by octagons, and x-shaped compartments containing medallions and anthemia enclosed within lozenges, and circles by festoons, with fans in the corners, and a segmental compartment containing an urn flanked by winged sphinxes on each side. The central square is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a central medallion enclosed within a wreath, and with anthemia within an octagonal compartment, which is connected to hexagonal compartments, the first of which contains a vesica-shaped medallion, and the second contains half a patera within a fan of fluting, and between the hexagons is rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Drawing room at Newby

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, pink and terre verte on laid paper (568 x 393)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 2001, p. 357
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 263
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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