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