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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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