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  • image SM Adam volume 8/115

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/115

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1769

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, encircled by a fan, and miniature rosettes enclosed by figure-of-eight wreaths, and reed and ribbon, festoons, and baskets full of foliage

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Cieling for Ld Lisburnes Eating room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (358 x 338)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 181
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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