[138] Preliminary design 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)
    - 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 40/16

Purpose

[138] 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 window wall, with a central window 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 for the Library at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale / ANCIENT HISTORY / MODERN HISTORY / (verso) This to be placed Fourth / 2d D[esign (cropped)] / For the Library at Kiddleston

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including olive green and pink on laid paper (594 x 495)

Hand

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

Watermark

PVL

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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