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  • image SM Adam volume 11/17

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/17

Purpose

[13] Design for the ceiling for the ante room, 1761, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling with four pilasters on each wall, with a central octagonal compartment containing a patera and bows supporting festoons, encircled by four octagonal compartments containing rosettes encircled by enclosed fans of fluting, and these octagons alternate with four rectangular compartments cotaining an anthemion flanked by sphinxes. There is an additional border on one end of three compartments containing anthemia, and fan roundels

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Vestibule at Sion / as executed (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    Decr 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (447 x 592)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28.
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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