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[7] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room (later the music room), 1773, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/60
Purpose
[7] Record drawing for a ceiling for the dining room (later the music room), 1773, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a chimneypiece on one of the long sides, and with a central square compartment, containing a central medallion, enclosed within circular frames of rosettes alternating with calyx, and petals, and with octagonal frames of wreaths, arabesques and fans, and with an apron of festoons held by eagles, and connecting a small tablet on each side containing a jug, and the central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments, containing segmental paterae, enclosed within frames of bell flowers, fans ornamented with anthemia and calyx, swags, and a segmental wreath interrupted by oval medallions, and with a small tablet on one side containing an enclosed rosette, and with a fan in the inside corners, and the whole has a border of Vitruvian scroll with foliage
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling of the Dining room at Mellerstain / Light Green / light Green / light green / purple ground / d green / purple / light green / d green / d green / light Green / purple ground / d green / d green / d green / light green / d green / (and in pencil) Pink / green / Light Green / Light Green / Purple / dark Green / Dark Green / Light Green
Signed and dated
- 07/09/1773
Adelphi / Sepr. 7t. 1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (600 x 400)
Hand
Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
Beard, 1978, p. 48
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Beard, 1978, p. 48
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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