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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/121

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a large circular frame, containing a central rosette or medallion, encircled by figures alternating with rosettes enclosed within wreaths of calyx which connect to festoons of calyx enclosing segmental tablets around the edges of the circular compartment, and beyond this in the corners of the central square compartment are rosettes enclosed within fans, and festoons, and the central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a repeating pattern of roundels and rosette enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (431 x 305)

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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