[84] Finished drawing for the walls of the dining room, 1762

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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)
    - Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms
      - Preliminary design and finished drawings for the walls of the dining room, 1762 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/22

Purpose

[84] Finished drawing for the walls of the dining room, 1762

Aspect

Section, showing the cornice and dado in profile, and showing a chimney (south) wall elevation, with a central caryatid chimneypiece with a figurative tablet, flanked on either side by a pedimented door. The wall is ornamented with seven picture frames and a dentil cornice

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of Dining Room at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale / 28 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (534 x 374)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 18-19
Stillman, 1966, p. 67
Harris, 1987, p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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