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[11] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1778, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/62
Purpose
[11] Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1778, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a chimneybreast on one of the long sides, with a large oval compartment containing an oval medallion, enclosed within frames of laurel leaf tips, miniature rosettes, festoons, enclosed calyx, and four tablets containing urns flanked by winged griffons, connected by bell flowers, and supporting arabesques and peltoid shields, and the whole is set within an oval frame of cable moulding and Vitruvian scroll with foliage, and beyond this is a rectangular border of connected segmental enclosed rosettes (verso) rough pencil-drawn preliminary design for a ceiling
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Drawing room at Mellerstain / Light Green / Purple / White / Purple / Light Green / Purple / Purple / White
Signed and dated
- 05/03/1778
Adelphi / 5t. March 1778.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (470 x 406)
Hand
Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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