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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/48

Purpose

[135] Design for a ceiling for a ceiling in the front corner room on the second storey, 1774, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval enclosed patera, encircled by an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, festoons of beading, rosettes, four drops of beading connecting to medallions, from which hang calyx, and the medallions are connected by a large oval frame of reeding

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the two pair Chamber corner of John Street Adelphi / Stucco Medallion

Signed and dated

  • 21/03/1774
    21t: March / 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (319 x 417)

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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