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[118] Record drawing for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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- 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/57
Purpose
[118] Record drawing for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central flower within a circular compartment, flanked by a half octagon panel to either side. The ceiling is ornamented with rosettes, festoons, arabesques, calyx and anthemia
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Musick room Ceiling for Kedleston
Signed and dated
- 1761
1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (441 x 303)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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