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  • image SM Adam volume 12/100

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/100

Purpose

[9] Record drawing for the ceiling for the hall, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval patera, enclosed within a fan of leaves, and an oval frame of waterleaf with an apron of festoons and rosettes, and the whole is set in an oval border of anthemia enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons, wich extends around bordering compartments, with pentagonal compartments in the corners, containing half figures with arabesque tails, and square on each side, containing enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling For Lord Bective's Hall.

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (430 x 374)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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