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  • image SM Adam volume 13/35

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/35

Purpose

[60] Design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1770; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosettes, encircled by enclosed acanthus leaves, and set within a circular frame of cable moulding, and connected by bows and drops of ribbon to four medallions, and the whole is set within an oval frame, attended by figure-of-eight laurel leaves

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the back Drawing room at No. 9 Royal Terrace Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (427 x 330)

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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