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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/101

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1769

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail of a ceiling, ornamented with a repeating pattern of lozenges, connected by enclosed rosettes within lozenges and wreaths, and rosettes encircled by calyx

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and wash on laid paper (160 x 170)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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