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[13] Record drawing for a ceiling for the lady’s dressing room, 1778, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/64
Purpose
[13] Record drawing for a ceiling for the lady’s dressing room, 1778, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a chimneybreast off-centre on one of the short sides, with a central oval patera, enclosed within an oval fan, and oval frames of laurel leaf tips, and Vitruvian scroll, and encircled by a wreath of bell flowers, and festoons of beading hung from bows, supporting enclosed rosettes, and connected urns within lozenges, from which hang lamps, and the whole is set within a border ornamented with rosettes (verso) pencil drawn design as recto
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Lady’s Dressing room at Mellerstain / White / Grey / White / Grey / White / Orange & black ground / White / Black / Orange
Signed and dated
- 05/03/1778
Adelphi 5t. March 1778.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (356 x 328)
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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