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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/42

Purpose

[108] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the drawing room, c1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette, enclosed within circular frames of Vitruvian scroll, and reed and ribbon attended by a serpentine wreath, and flanked by roundels which are also enclosed by frames of reed and ribbon, and the whole is set within an elliptical frame of guilloche, and with triangular compartments in each corner which have been crossed out, and with a compartmental rectangular border

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / K / H / K / This the same Mouldings as the frame round the 9th. Cieling and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (270 x 356)

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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