[58] Finished drawing for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations to the internal arrangement, and minus the southern quadrants and pavilions

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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 alterations to, and completion of, the house
      - Finished drawings for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations to the internal arrangement, and minus the southern quadrants and pavilions (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/7

Purpose

[58] Finished drawing for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations to the internal arrangement, and minus the southern quadrants and pavilions

Aspect

Plan of the attic floor as Adam volume 40/5 but showing the roofs of the links, without folding flaps, and with pencil annotations on the south-east and south-west links

Scale

1/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick Story / Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of Kiddleston House for Sir Nathaniel Curzon afterwards Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) / Hay Loft / Corn Chamber / Hay Loft / Grooms room / Grooms room / Chapel continued / Roof over the Corridore / Servants B room / Brew house continued / Room / Passage / Stair / Laundry continued / Stair / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Passage / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Roof over the Corridore / Mr Curzons Bed room / Nursery / Stair / Maids room / Passage / Anti chamber / Miss Curzon's Bed room / Room / Dining room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Passage / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Garden Saloon continued / Hall continued / Passage / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Great Stair continued / Bed Chamber / Passage / Closet / Closet / Back Stair / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber and dimensions given (verso) 7 / Lord Scarsdale Sheddleton (sic) House

Signed and dated

1760
datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1219 x 871)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Harris, 1987, pp. 22-23
Harris, 2001, p. 336
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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