[136] Design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1775, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
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        Number 3, corner of Robert Street and Royal Terrace
        Design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1775, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/50

Purpose

[136] Design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1775, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with an apse on one long side, and another apse on one short side, and each apse is ornamented with a segmental patera, encircled by a frame of enclosed anthemia, and the central flat is ornamented with a medallion, encircled by four calyx, a lozenge-shaped frame, an oval frame ornamented with calyx, crockets, and an apron of festoons connecting to rosettes enclosed within wreaths, and drops composed of calyx, wreaths, rosettes, tablets containing masks flanked by swags, and tubular flowers

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing room Cieling west wing corner of the Terrace Adelphi / (and in pencil) White / Straw / Straw / Green / Dark purple / Green / Straw / Straw / A / A / Blue / Purple

Signed and dated

01/02/1775
Febry 1st. 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes of terre verte and violet on laid paper (431 x 369)

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

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