[132] Finished drawing for ceiling for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted

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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
      - Finished drawings for variant ceilings for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/49

Purpose

[132] Finished drawing for ceiling for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central rosette enclosed by fluting, calyx, a circular band of Vitruvian scroll, a lozenge-shaped band of cable moulding, and with arabesques, calyx and anthemia on each corner of the lozenge

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Dressing room / at Kedleston

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (318 x 213)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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