[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1771, as executed or executed with minor alterations

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    - Chandos House, Queen Anne Street, number 1 (now number 2), London: designs for interior decoration, built and decorated as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1769-72 (8)
      - Finished drawing for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1771, as executed or executed with minor alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/56

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1771, as executed or executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with an apsidal end, with a central medallion, encircled by a band of rosettes amid serpentine ribbon, a fluted frame ornamented with crockets, bows, rosettes, and festoons, from which hang four peltoid shields supported by lion masks, and on each side of the central circular compartment is a square compartment, containing a medallion, and the apse is ornamented with a large patera, encircled by a segmental fan ornamented with double calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the second Drawing room at Chandos House

Signed and dated

1771
1771.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink and terre verte on laid paper (563 x 446)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
Lees Milne, 1947, p. 121
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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