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[66] Design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1770, executed at number 8 Royal Terrace
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 13/39
Purpose
[66] Design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1770, executed at number 8 Royal Terrace
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a large central compartment, containing a medallion, encircled by enclosed anthemia and festoons, and encircled by four enclosed rosettes within square compartments one each side, and this central circular compartment is flanked by segmental compartments, containing segmental medallions, encircled by enclosed by a fan ornamented with anthemia, and between the circular and segmental compartments are triangular compartments, containing winged sphinxes, flanked by medallions, and festoons hung from masks, and the whole is flanked within a rectangular compartments ornamented with enclosed rosettes, and half putti with rinceaux tails, and the whole is enclosed within a border of guilloche
Scale
bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling of the front Drawing room at No. 11. Royal Terrace Adelphi
Signed and dated
- 1770
1770.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (596 x 423)
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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