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[137] Record drawing for a ceiling for the circular dressing room, March 1768, unexecuted
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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 11/48
Purpose
[137] Record drawing for a ceiling for the circular dressing room, March 1768, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a circular ceiling including four niche heads, with a central rosette encircled by a fan, festoons, medallions, arabesques, and urns. The niche heads are ornamented with medallion, arabesques and anthemia, and between the niche heads are large tubular flowers supporting urns and arabesques, and flanked by female figures
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the new intended Circular room at Kedleston
Signed and dated
- March 1768
March 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes on laid paper (520 x 624)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 173-74
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 173-74
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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