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[66] Preliminary design for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted
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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 40/8
Purpose
[66] Preliminary design for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a compartmental barrel-vaulted ceiling supported by a colonnade, with compartments containing oval skylights and oval panels, divided by bands of hexagons, and with compartments containing pencil-drawn arabesques outside the colonnade
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling of the Hall showing the Compartments & Sky lights and the Manner of Finishing the Cove with Soffitts over columns / for Lord Scarsdales House (in the hand of William Adam) / E / B / B / B (verso) This to be placed Second and a further inscription below which has been largely cropped
Signed and dated
- 1760-1761
date range: 1760-61
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (931 x 634)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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