[105] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, executed, possibly with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
      - Adam Street
        Number 7, Adam Street
        Finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, executed, possibly with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/7

Purpose

[105] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, executed, possibly with alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central octagonal medallion, enclosed within a fluted frame, encircled by four portions of rinceaux, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by ribbons and festoons, and within a frame composed of square and segmental compartments, with the square compartments in each corner, with a frame of cable moulding and containing an enclosed rosette, and the segmental compartments on each side, with a border of anthemia and acanthus leaves, and a central compartment containing an urn flanked by lions, and the whole is set within a frame of Vitruvian scroll, and is flanked by bordering rectangular compartments of enclosed anthemia alternating with lozenges

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Drawing room at No. 7. Adam Street Adelphi / (and in pencil) D Y East Wing 7th House and some measurements given

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 (416 x 450)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
Rowan, 2007, pp. 53, 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the Reign of George III, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 September 2007 - 12 January 2008; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 19 April - 24 May 2008; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 October - 13 December 2008

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

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