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  • image SM Adam volume 13/10

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/10

Purpose

[116] 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 an oval compartment, with a central elliptical medallion, encircled by an elliptical 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 of reed, ornamented with jugs alternating with rosettes enclosed within wreaths, and with an apron of swags

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling in the 10t. House Adam Street Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (442 x 342)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly 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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