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  • image SM Adam volume 13/22

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/22

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval medallion, set within a lozenge-shaped frame, and encircled by festoons, enclosed rosettes, and calyx, and the whole is set within a second lozenge-shaped frame, which is encircled by festoons, medallions, and arabesques, and with a peltoid shield and short drop of calyx in each corner

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the back Drawing room at No. 1. Royal Terrace Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink, olive green and Indian red on laid paper (477 x 407)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
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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