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[71] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760
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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 22/18
Purpose
[71] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with caryatid stiles holding a swag across the tablet, surmounted by a broken-apex pediment supporting a small figurative sculpture surmounted by a small casket (drawn in pencil). With feint pencil annotations including an acroterion on the left-hand side of the pediment
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for Kedleston
Signed and dated
- 1760
1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (274 x 292)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 2001, p. 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, p. 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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