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[117] Design for the ceiling for the coffee room on the ground storey, c1770, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 5/56
Purpose
[117] Design for the ceiling for the coffee room on the ground storey, c1770, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rectangular compartment ornamented with a repeating pattern of vesica-shaped medallions, encircled by four anthemia, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, and flanked by enclosed rosettes, and with semicircular compartments around the edge, and with bordering rectangular compartments ornamented with rosettes enclosed within fans, alternating with connected enclosed rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cente[cropped] / Cente[cropped] / A / B / B / D / C / E / C / D / D / A / B / B / D / C / B / D / E / C / D / (and in pencil) figure / pink / Pea Green / pink / pink / Blue / Blue
Signed and dated
- 1770
datable to 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte and cerulean blue on laid paper (330 x 513)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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