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  • image SM Adam volume 13/3

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/3

Purpose

[93] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, executed at number 4 Adam Street

Aspect

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

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Drawing room at No.3. Adam Street Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and olive green within a single ruled border on laid paper (530 x 441)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly 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

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

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