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[28] Finished drawing for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
- 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)
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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.
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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