[115] Preliminary design for the ceiling for an unknown room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed

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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 10, Adam Street
        Preliminary design and design for the ceiling for an unknown room, 1770; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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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

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