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[67] Record drawing for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted
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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 11/45
Purpose
[67] Record drawing for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and detail of a barrel-vaulted compartmental ceiling, divided into nine compartments containing round and oval panels of bands of acanthus leaves and urns and anthemia, framed by bands of hexagons enclosing flowers
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Hall at Kedleston (in the hand of William Adam) Part of the Cieling at the Angle with the Cove / Extended upon a Straight Line
Signed and dated
- 1761
1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (582 x 449)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 66
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 66
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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