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  • image SM Adam volume 40/52

Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/52

Purpose

[28] Finished drawing for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 54/3/30 but to a smaller scale, with a three-step stylobate, words in the inscription panel, and a straight fluted shaft

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Milliarium For Sir Nathl Caurzon Baronet. at Kiddleston / now Lord Scarsdale / To / Kedleston House / 1 Mile / 60 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and dimensions given (verso) 2 / This to be placed Seventeenth / Kiddleston Mile Stone

Signed and dated

  • 1760
    datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (308 x 491)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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