[146] Design for unknown carpets, c1759-68

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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 designs for unknown carpets, c1759-68 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/164

Purpose

[146] Design for unknown carpets, c1759-68

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular carpet with a central patera encircled by figure-of-eight wreaths, within a lozenge with flowering plants in the corners, within an oval band of vines. Outside this central oval are birds, arabesques and cornucopia in the corners, and with an outer band of enclosed rosettes with acanthus leaves in the corners

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Carpet for Sir Nathaniel Curzon Baronet

Signed and dated

1759-1761
1759-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (575 x 385)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
Stillman, 1966, p. 106
Harris, 2001, p. 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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