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  • image SM Adam volume 5/57

Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/57

Purpose

[119] Design for the ceiling for the room on the first storey, c1770, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rectangular compartment containing a repeating pattern of an oval enclosed within an oval frame ornamented with crockets, alternating with a rosette enclosed within a lozenges, and with rectangular bordering compartments of enclosed patera, and tablets of anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Blue / pink / pink / Center of Ceiling (all in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes of pink, terre verte and cerulean blue on laid paper (340 x 460)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly 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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