[140] Preliminary design for the walls of the book 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
      - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for the walls of the book room, 1768, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/14

Purpose

[140] Preliminary design for the walls of the book room, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Section, with cornice and dado shown in profile, and showing the elevation for a three-bay wall, with a central door with a frieze of lozenges surmounted by a rectangular figurative overdoor panel, and flanked on either side by bookcases. The wall is articulated by semicircular-headed recesses between Doric pilasters, and the wall is ornamented with roundels and a frieze of lozenges

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Library at Kiddleston. Second Design for Lord Scarsdale / PHILOSOPHY / DIVINITY

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and pink on laid paper (605 x 504)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D&B within crowned garter cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Harris, 1987, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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