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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/40

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, containing a large oval compartment, with a central enclosed rosette, encircled by drops of calyx, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, attended by an oval fame, and the whole is encircled by four peltoid shields, enclosed rosettes, festoons and enclosed urns

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the back Drawing room at No. 11. Royal Terrace Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (414 x 331)

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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