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[27] Design for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/51
Purpose
[27] Design for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation with a stylobate of four steps, a pediment ornamented with a wreath, supporting a band of laurel leaves bound by ribbons, acanthus leaves, a fluted and gadrooned shaft banded by a rectangular inscription panel, surmounted by oversized acanthus leaves, a spiral fluted shaft, and surmounted by a capital of swags and enclosed rosettes, and a fluted socle supporting a domed top. Pencil underdrawing visible
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
59 / Original Red Chalk Sketch / Vol 54 (30) (in pencil in two different modern curatorial hands)
Signed and dated
- 1760
datable to 1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (306 x 495)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 90
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 90
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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