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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
      - The Royal Terrace
        Number 5, Royal Terrace
        Preliminary designs and finished drawing for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/41

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette, encircled by enclosed acanthus leaves, and a circular frame, encircled by pencil-drawn enclosed rosettes, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by four enclosed rosettes, and the whole is set within an oval fluted frame, with a rectangular compartment on each side, containing rosettes and calyx enclosed within lozenges, and the whole is set within a border of guilloche

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / A / A and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (390 x 326)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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