[54] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1770, executed with minor alterations at number 4 Royal Terrace

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        Number 7, Royal Terrace
        Preliminary design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1770, executed with minor alterations at number 4 Royal Terrace (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/33

Purpose

[54] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1770, executed with minor alterations at number 4 Royal Terrace

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling, divided by bands of guilloche, with a central square compartment composed of circular compartments with central medallions enclosed within a fluted frame, and a frame ornamented with crockets, and festoons, and these circular compartments alternate with octagonal compartments containing central medallions within a circular frame ornamented with crockets, and this central square is flanked by tripartite rectangular compartments, with a central vesica-shaped medallion, enclosed within an oval wreath, and flanked by rectangular compartments containing anthemia and arabesques within a segmental frame, ornamented with crockets, a lion mask, and swags

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the front Drawing room at No. 8. Royal Terrace Adelphi.

Signed and dated

1770
1770.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (594 x 417)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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