[92] Record drawing of a tripod perfume burner designed by James Stuart, c1760-62

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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
      - Record drawings of a tripod perfume burner designed by James Stuart, c1760-62 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/89

Purpose

[92] Record drawing of a tripod perfume burner designed by James Stuart, c1760-62

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 25/90 but with three foliate candle branches springing from the urn

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Tripod for Sir Nathaniel Curzon Bart.

Signed and dated

1760-1762
date range: 1760-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (294 x 522)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50, p. 63
Goodison, 1972, p. 695
Harris, 1987, p. 34
Snodin, 2007, pp. 17-19, 466, 469
Hartop, 2010, p. 20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

James "Athenian" Stuart, 1713-1788. The Rediscovery of Antiquity, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, 16 November 2006 - 18 February 2007; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 15 March - 24 June 2007

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