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  • image SM Adam volume 11/239

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/239

Purpose

[40] Record drawing for a ceiling for the study, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a quarter-drawn square ceiling, with a central patera set within a circular frame of guilloche, encircle by rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, and from which hangs peltoid shields and drops of calyx, and drops of figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing cameos and rosettes, and all connected by festoons

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Study at Newby

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink and terre verte on laid paper (369 x 393)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or 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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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