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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/82

Purpose

[71] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the front drawing room, c1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a medallion, enclosed within a fan, and encircled by half figures with rinceaux and anthemia tails, and the whole is set within a curving x-shaped frame, with a segmental figurative panel on each side, and the central square is flanked by rectangular compartments, containing half figures with rinceaux tails, flanked by rectangles enclosing lozenges

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (411 x 294)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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