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  • image SM Adam volume 13/47

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/47

Purpose

[134] Design for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1774, executed at number 2 Robert Street

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette enclosed within a fan of leaves, encircled by miniature rosettes, an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, anthemia, a lozenge-shaped frame with an anthemion on each corner, bows, and drops of calyx connecting to medallions and urns, and the medallions are connected by festoons of beading

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the one pair Chamber corner of Robert Street Adelphi / Stucco Medallion

Signed and dated

  • 04/04/1774
    4t. April / 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (440 x 327)

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

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

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