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  • image SM Adam volume 13/54

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/54

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the ante room, 1771, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, with a central rosette, encircled by a frame of cable moulding, anthemia enclosed within triangles, rinceaux contained within a shaped octagonal frame of anthemia and calyx, and the whole is set within a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, encircled by rosettes enclosed within semicircular fans, enclosed rosettes, festoons, and peltoid shields

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Anti room at Chandos House

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink, cerulean blue and terre verte on laid paper (385 x 401)

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

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

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