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  • image SM Adam volume 5/85

Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/85

Purpose

[130] Preliminary design for the ceiling for an unknown room in an unknown house, c1770; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central elliptical compartment, encircled by a frame of laurel leaf tips, double calyx and anthemia, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by festoons of calyx hung from bows, and from which bows also hang drops of calyx supporting a vesica-shaped medallion in each corner, which is encircled by festoons and calyx

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for front room one pair at No. 13 in Adam Street Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (349 x 294)

Hand

Robert Adam

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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