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  • image SM Adam volume 14/86

Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/86

Purpose

[88] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1783; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central chimneybreast on one of the short sides, with a central medallion, encircled by a fan of enclosed anthemia, a band of Vitruvian scroll, and festoons which connect to wreaths enclosing paterae, and tablets containing winged sphinxes, and the tablets are connected by a wreath of bell flowers, and with large-scale pencil annotations showing bell flowers on the left-hand side of the sheet

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Ceiling for the 1st Drawing room at Mr Hesse’s House in the Adelphi (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1783
    1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte and violet on laid paper (564 x 414)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
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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