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  • image SM Adam volume 13/44

Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/44

Purpose

[138] Design for the ceiling for one of the first storey rooms, 1774, executed with minor alterations at 1 Robert Street

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with an apsidal end, with a central medallion, set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by festoons hung from bows, and connected to drops of calyx supporting four enclosed medallions with aprons of festoons, and the medallions are connected by an oval frame of reed and ribbon

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the one pair rooms corner of George Street Adelphi / Stucco Medallion / Stucco Medallion and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 08/02/1774
    Febry 8t. / 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (525 x 339)

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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