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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/42

Purpose

[139] Design for a ceiling for an unknown room, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central square compartment, containing an arrangement of guilloche, and with an oval compartment in each corner, and the whole is set within a square frame ornamented with oval compartments, and flanked by festoons and rosettes enclosed within wreaths

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling at No. 3. in John Street Adelphi / Cornice and various feint pencil inscriptions indicating colour

Signed and dated

  • 01/12/1772
    Decr. 1 / 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (427 x 325)

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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