[148] Design for a ceiling for a second-floor room in an unknown house, c1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
      - John Street
        Unknown houses, John Street
        Design for a ceiling for a second-floor room in an unknown house, c1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/46

Purpose

[148] Design for a ceiling for a second-floor room in an unknown house, c1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling, with a central enclosed rosette, encircled by four miniature rosettes, a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, anthemia, a lozenge-shaped frame with an anthemion on each corner, bows, and four drops of calyx connecting medallions, and the medallions are connected by festoons of beading

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the two pair Chamber in John Street Adelphi / Cornice / Cornice / Stucco Medallion and some measurements given

Signed and dated

12/03/1774
March 12t. 177[cropped] datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (328 x 345)

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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