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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/113

Purpose

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

Aspect

Rough unfinished plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, divided by bands of arabesques, with roundels on the corners, and with a central square compartment containing a central medallion, enclosed within a shaped octagonal fan ornamented with compartments of rinceaux and half figures, and the whole is set within a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, encircled by festoons, and four square figurative tablets, and with segmental rosettes enclosed within fans in each corner, and the central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a central segmental rosette enclosed within a fan, and a frame of anthemia, and flanked by festoons and oval medallions enclosed within wreaths

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

West end

Signed and dated

  • 23/07/1769
    23d July 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (312 x 395)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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