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[77] Record drawing for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1767
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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 20/9
Purpose
[77] Record drawing for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1767
Aspect
Half drawn elevation of a girandole of candle branches arranged around an oval mirror, ornamented with acanthus leaves, festoons, and hung from a mask on figure-of-eight bell flowers enclosing anthemia, unexecuted
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Girandole for the Great Drawing room at Kedleston
Signed and dated
- 1767
1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (191 x 406)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
Harris, 1987, p. 40
Harris, 2001, pp. 29, 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
Harris, 1987, p. 40
Harris, 2001, pp. 29, 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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