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  • image SM Adam volume 13/8

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/8

Purpose

[109] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, enclosed within a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll with an apron of four anthemia, and another frame of reed and ribbon attended by a serpentine wreath, and rosettes, and flanked by fans enclosing rosettes, which are also encircled by frames of reed and ribbon, and the whole is set within an elliptical frame of guilloche, with triangular compartments in each corner containing rinceaux, and with a compartmental rectangular border ornamented with enclosed rosettes, urns, and arabesques of acanthus leaves enclosing rosettes

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Drawing room at No. 8. Adam Street Adelphi / D Y East Wing 8th House (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, Indian red and olive green within a single ruled border on laid paper (515 x 442)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, 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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