Preliminary designs and designs for unknown carpets, c1759-68 (5)

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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

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Preliminary designs and designs for unknown carpets, c1759-68 (5)

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Adam volumes 17/164 and 17/165 are inscribed in an office hand with the name Sir Nathaniel Curzon and therefore they must date to before April 1761 when Curzon was created Lord Scarsdale. Moreover, Stillman notes that these drawings are in the heavy style of the early Adam office. The other drawings are not inscribed and so it is more difficult to date them, although Adam volume 54/1/7 is also in the heavy style of the early office. It is not known if these carpets were executed, but if so they do not survive.

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Contents of Preliminary designs and designs for unknown carpets, c1759-68 (5)