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[115] Preliminary design for the ceiling for an unknown room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 5/60
Purpose
[115] Preliminary design for the ceiling for an unknown room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, containing a large oval compartment, with a central oval medallion, encircled by an oval frame ornamented with alternating anthemia and calyx, and a band of calyx enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons, and the whole is encircled by an oval frame ornamented with jugs alternating with rosettes enclose within wreaths of beading, and with an apron of swags
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling for Mr. Adamson’s House Adelphi (underwritten in pencil) with some measurements given in feint pencil
Signed and dated
- May 1769
May [cropped] and datable to 1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (330 x 321)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
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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