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[2] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the dressing room, 1772
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/116
Purpose
[2] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the dressing room, 1772
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a chimneybreast on one of the long sides, and with a central enclosed patera, encircled by double calyx, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by four enclosed rosettes, one of which is overdrawn with a peltoid shield, and the whole is set within an oval frame of cable moulding, with a frame of festoons hung from bows, and supporting four enclosed rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 4/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Dressing Room for George Keate Esqr / This Ceiling to serve / for the Dining room / the Ornaments in the / Small drawing the / same Size with this / But drawn to the scale / Below. N.B. Pictures / instead of Roses in the / Circles & Sheets / where the small patera / are / The Colouring of the Ground / to be the same
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdigris, pink and violet within a single ruled border on laid paper (505 x 375)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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