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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

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

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