[107] Record drawing of a ceiling for the ceiling for Lady Scarsdale's dressing room, 1760

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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 drawing for a ceiling for Lady Scarsdale's dressing room, 1760 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/44

Purpose

[107] Record drawing of a ceiling for the ceiling for Lady Scarsdale's dressing room, 1760

Aspect

Plan of a square ceiling with a central medallion encircled by arabesques, masks and urns within a curved x-shaped panel, with an oval medallion at each of the four edges. There are further arabesques and calyx ornamentation around the edges

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for Lady Scarsdale's Dressing room at Kedleston

Signed and dated

1760
1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes in one eighth including Indian yellow and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (425 x 346)

Hand

Agostino Brunias with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Bristow, 1986, p. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013

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