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

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        Number 1, Adam Street
        Preliminary designs and finished drawing for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/156

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a detail of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a roundel enclosed within a fan, and encircled by winged 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 tripartite, rectangular compartments, containing a repeating pattern comprising an enclosed rosette, attended by scrolls and anthemia

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Rosso(?) / Verde / Verde / Blù / Biano / Bianco / Blù / Rosa

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (490 x 350)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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