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[70] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760
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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 54/6/15
Purpose
[70] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760
Aspect
Rough elevation of a chimneypiece with caryatid stiles holding a swag across the tablet which contains a figurative oval panel, surmounted by a broken-top pediment supporting a small figurative sculpture surmounted by a clock, and with the clock overdrawn in pencil to a different design
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1760
1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (259 x 348)
Hand
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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