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  • image SM Adam volume 8/81

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/81

Purpose

[91] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the drawing room, c1769, executed at number 4 Adam Street

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval medallion, enclosed within a frame ornamented with miniature rosettes, and encircled by urns connected by festoons, and medallions, and the whole is set within an oval frame, and with an enclosed rosette in each corner

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (386 x 299)

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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