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[20] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 5/61
Purpose
[20] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a fan, encircled by four drops of calyx, and the whole is set within an x-shaped arrangement, and with medallions on each side of the x-shape, and with a bordering L-shaped compartment of rinceaux on each corner, and the whole is flanked by bordering rectangular compartments, with various ornamental additions in light pencil
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Diamr / C / B / B / E / E / D / To be painted / (and in pencil) Light Pink / Pea Green / Dark Pink / Light Pink / Light Pink / DP / Light Pink / LP / Not to be Painted and some measurements given in pen
Signed and dated
- 1769
datable to 1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (390 x 314)
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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