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[17] Record drawing for a ceiling for the Lady's room over the saloon, 1772, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/102
Purpose
[17] Record drawing for a ceiling for the Lady's room over the saloon, 1772, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a fluted frame, and encircled by roundels enclosed within wreaths of bell flowers, connected to rosettes enclosed within wreaths of bell flowers, and supporting festoons of beading, with lozenges and ovals, and supporting drops of calyx, arabesques and anthemia, and the whole is set within an oval frame of reed and ribbon, supporting anthemia alternating with urns flanked by winged griffons, and with an apron of segmental rosettes enclosed within segmental fans, and within festoons which support peltoid shields, and the whole is set within an oval frame of guilloche, and with an enclosed rosette within a wreath of reed and ribbon in each corner
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Lady's room over the Saloon for The Earl of Bective
Signed and dated
- 19/11/1772
Adelphi / Novr. 19t. 1772.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte and pink on laid paper (493 x 418)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
Harris, 1973, note to pl. 33
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1973, note to pl. 33
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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