[15] Design for a ceiling for the octagonal room, 1777

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    - Charlotte Street, number 9 (later 4 Bloomsbury Street), London: interior decoration and furnishings for George Keate, 1772-78 (22)
      - Alternative designs for the ceiling for the octagonal room, 1772, Adam volume 12/117 unexecuted; Adam volume 12/119; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/119

Purpose

[15] Design for a ceiling for the octagonal room, 1777

Aspect

Plan of an octagonal ceiling, with a central rosette, enclosed within a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, and octagonal frames of beading, bell flowers, and cable moulding, encircled by eight anthemia supported by tubular flowers and calyx, and this set within an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, an oval fan ornamented with eight medallions, and another oval frame of enclosed segmental rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/20 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for George Keate Esqr.

Signed and dated

1777
1777 / Adelphi

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes of verdigris and terre verte on laid paper (418 x 395)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
Wainwright, 1996, p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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