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