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- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms

Preliminary design and alternative designs for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760 (3)

The executed chimneypiece (Adam volume 22/15) was carved by Michael Henry Spang in 1760 and is comparable to the caryatid chimneypieces at Hatchlands, Harewood and Croome Court.

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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)

[70] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760

1760

Robert Adam

SM Adam volume 54/6/15

Drawing

Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)

[71] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760

1760

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 22/18

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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)

[72] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760, executed with alterations

1760

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with inscriptions in the hand of William Adam and A.T. Bolton

SM Adam volume 22/15

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