[7] Design for the ceiling for the hall, 1772, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Headfort House, County Meath: designs for interior decoration for Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, 1771-75 (18)
    - Design and alternative record drawings for the ceiling for the hall, 1772, Adam volumes 8/40 and 12/100 as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/99

Purpose

[7] Design for the ceiling for the hall, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval patera, enclosed within a fan of petals, and an oval fluted frame, and an oval moulded frame with an apron of festoons and rosettes, within an oval frame of cable moulding, connected to drops of calyx supporting peltoid shields in each corner, and with an enclosed urn on each side, set within a rectagnular frame of cable moulding, and the whole is flanked by rectangular border panels of drops of acanthus leaves, and a border of cable moulding

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Hall for The Earl of Bective / not right / A duplicate / Hall Cieling for Lord Bective (in pencil)

Signed and dated

12/02/1772
Adelphi / 12t. Febry 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (342 x 460)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
Harris, 1973, note to pl. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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