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Robert Adam, 1728–1792, British, Langford House, Dublin, Ireland: Great Room Ceiling, 1765
- Title:
Langford House, Dublin, Ireland: Great Room Ceiling
- Additional Title(s):
Design of a Ceiling for the Great Room towards the Garden
- Date:
- 1765
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 1/4 inches (28.9 × 41.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: "Design of a Cieling for the Great Room towards the Garden."; in pen and brown ink, lower center, scale bar labeled: "Scale of", "10", "5", "0", "10", "20 feet"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, center left: "Ceiling"
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Robt Adam Archt. 1765."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.796
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | ceiling | festoons | great room | house | Neoclassical | room | rosettes | scale (rule)
- Associated Places:
- Dublin | Dublin | Ireland | Langford House | Leinster
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12203
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