[128] 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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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
      - Adam Street
        Unknown houses, Adam Street
        Preliminary design, design and finished drawing for the ceiling for the drawing room in an unknown house, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/59

Purpose

[128] Design for the ceiling for the drawing room in an unknown house, c1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central roundel, encircled by scrolled hearts enclosing roundels, a circular frame with an apron of miniature rosettes and festoons, and four large vesica-shaped compartments containing roundels, and with borders ornamented with miniature rosettes, and the whole is flanked by semicircular compartments containing segmental paterae, and has a rectangular border of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / Cornice / (and in pencil) Light Pink / Dark purple and some measurement given in pen

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink and terre verte wash on laid paper (375 x 317)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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