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  • image SM Adam volume 5/56

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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