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