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[134] Preliminary design for the layout of the painted breakfasting parlour, with pencil annotations showing the arrangement of the ceiling, 1768, unexecuted
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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 40/18
Purpose
[134] Preliminary design for the layout of the painted breakfasting parlour, with pencil annotations showing the arrangement of the ceiling, 1768, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a circular room with four semicircular alcoves alternating with rectangular recesses, a door, and a window. With rough pencil annotations showing a design for the ceiling with a central rosette encircled by swags, arabesques, urns, figures, and with a roundel, arabesques, anthemia and urns in the semi-dome of the alcoves, and with a rough pencil design for the frieze on the right-hand side of the sheet
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Plan of Saloon for Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale (incorrectly inscribed in the hand of William Adam) / 25 Diamr / Saloon (in pencil) and some measurements given in pen and pencil (verso) 1
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (724 x 656)
Hand
Adam office hand, with pencil annotations by Robert Adam, and with title inscription (incorrect) in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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