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  • image SM Adam volume 13/1

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/1

Purpose

[73] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan 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 of reed and ribbon, with a segmental figurative panel on each side, and the central square is flanked by tripartite, rectangular compartments, containing a repeating pattern comprising a mask enclosed within a fan, a lozenge terminating in calyx and anthemia, and a wreath of beading

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Drawing room at No. 1 Adam Street. Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink, olive green on laid paper (599 x 408)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, 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

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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