[135] Finished drawing for the painted breakfasting room, 1768, 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 the painted breakfasting room, 1768, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/125

Purpose

[135] Finished drawing for the painted breakfasting room, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Section of a circular, domed room, with a central segmental-headed window flanked by segmental-headed recesses within relieving arches, a further window to the right, and a door to the left. The bays are articulated by paired Ionic pilasters and the walls ornamented with painted decoration including patera, figures, half figures, urns and arabesques. The domed ceiling is also painted with paired figures and arabesques

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

New room at Kedleston

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (618 x 457)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Watermark

LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999

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