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  • image SM Adam volume 11/55

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/55

Purpose

[129] Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1761

Aspect

Plan of a compartmental, rectangular ceiling, with a central skylight, flanked on all four sides with panels of octagonal coffering, and with square corner compartments containing arabesques and a wreath enclosing an urn

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the Grand Staircase / at Kedleston

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (439 x 318)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 308
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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