[51] Record drawing of a ceiling for the fishing room, 1770, executed

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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)
    - Designs for buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn
      - Record drawing of a ceiling, and design for the walls for the fishing room, 1770, executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/59

Purpose

[51] Record drawing of a ceiling for the fishing room, 1770, executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central patera encircled by acanthus leaves, arabesques, calyx and enclosed rosettes within a curved x-shape arrangement, encircled by medallions, a band of Vitruvian scroll, festoons of bell flowers, and large oval medallions

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Fishing room at Kedleston (in the hand of William Adam) (and in feint pencil) Fishing room

Signed and dated

August 1770
August 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including verdigris on laid paper (550 x 409)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 81
Harris, 2006, pp. 25-26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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