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  • image SM Adam volume 13/38

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/38

Purpose

[64] Design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a two-part rectangular ceiling, divided by a screen of two columns. The left-hand compartment contains an enclosed oval rosette, set within an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, rinceaux, festoons of calyx, and encircled by four medallions connected to rinceaux drops which run into each corner, amd the right-hand compartment has a central enclosed rosette, flanked by calyx, and anthemia, enclosed within figure-of-eight calyx, with rinceaux and anthemia at each end

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the back Drawing room at No. 10. Royal Terrace Adelphi / (and in pencil) Cieling for the back [cropped] / 10 House and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (485 x 352)

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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