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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/45

Purpose

[147] Design for a ceiling for a first storey room in an unknown house, 1774

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, containing a large circular compartment, with a central patera, encircled by a frame ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, anthemia, a lozenge-shaped frame, bows, festoons of beading, four roundels, and peltoid shields supported by lion masks and calyx

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the one pair Chamber in John Street Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 21/03/1774
    March 21s. / 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (318 x 348)

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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