[81] Preliminary design 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 54/3/3

Purpose

[81] Preliminary design for the walls of the dining room, 1762

Aspect

Rough elevation of a side (west) wall with a central semicircular-headed recess, ornamented with a fan and enclosed rosettes in the semi-dome, flanked on one side by a door with a frieze supported by consoles. The wall is ornamented with a frieze of festoons and a figurative overdoor roundel. To the right-hand side of the sheet is an alternative design for caryatid, or term, pedimented door surmounted by a rectangular panel containing a bucranium, and an overdoor roundel

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (197 x 132)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 18-19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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