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  • image SM Adam volume 11/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/19

Purpose

[37] Design for the ceiling for the drawing room, 1761-62, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling with octagonal coffering, and ornamented with medallions and fans

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the Drawing room at Sion / not executed

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    Decr 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, red and Prussian blue (538 x 416)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 98
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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