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[120] Design for the ceiling for the room on the first storey, 1770, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 13/16
Purpose
[120] Design for the ceiling for the room on the first storey, 1770, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rectangular compartment containing a repeating pattern of an oval medallion, enclosed within a fan, and an oval frame ornamented with crockets, alternating with a rosette enclosed within a lozenge, flanked by rinceaux, including calyx, acanthus leaves, tubular flowers, and anthemia, and with rectangular bordering compartments of enclosed paterae, and tablets of guilloche
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling of the One pair room at the Adelphi Tavern
Signed and dated
- 1770
1770.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (784 x 463)
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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