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  • image SM Adam volume 12/64

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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