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[127] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the drawing room in an unknown house, c1769; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/4
Purpose
[127] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the drawing room in an unknown house, c1769; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central patera, encircled by a fan, and a circular frame with an apron of festoons, attended by four vesica-shaped compartments containing scrolled hearts, and the whole is flanked by semicircular paterae, and has a rectangular border of Vitruvian scroll
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1769
datable to 1769
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (219 x 164)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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