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[141] Finished drawing for the walls of the book room, 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 14/122
Purpose
[141] Finished drawing for the walls of the book room, 1768, unexecuted
Aspect
Section as Adam volume 40/16
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
New Library for Kedleston
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including verdigris and pink (620 x 436)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Watermark
XD&BC within cartouche
Literature
Beard, 1978, p. 39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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