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  • image SM Adam volume 8/111

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/111

Purpose

[101] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the drawing room, c1769, as executed in an unknown room

Aspect

Rough plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central rosette, encircled by drops of calyx connecting to a border of scrolls enclosing anthemia, and with an enclosed rosette in each corner, and the central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing rosettes enclosed within scrolls

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (270 x 382)

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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