[109] Design for the library, 1760, executed with alterations

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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
      - Designs for the library, 1760, executed with alterations (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/9

Purpose

[109] Design for the library, 1760, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular room with a three-bay window (south) wall and bookcases against the window piers, a chimney wall opposite, with a chimneypiece flanked by two bookcases and doors, a side wall containing a further door, and with further bookcases against the side walls

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Library of Kedleston House for Sir Nathaniel Curzon afterwards Lord Scarsdale / 9 (in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1760
datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (496 x 362)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription (on separate sheet of sugar paper) in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 42
Harris, 2007, pp. 30-31
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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