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