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  • image SM Adam volume 8/118

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/118

Purpose

[48] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, c1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette, encircled by rinceaux and calyx, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by four enclosed rosettes, and the whole is set within an oval frame, encircled by four corner compartments containing rinceaux and anthemia, alternating with rectangular compartments containing rosettes enclosed within lozenges

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (305 x 250)

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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