[69] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1760, as executed

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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
      - Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1760, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/43

Purpose

[69] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1760, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular coved ceiling with a tripartite central flat. The central square of the middle compartment has a flower encircled by reed and ribbon intertwined with festoons held by putti and masks, and this is flanked by rectangular panels of scrolls, anthemia, calyx and fans. The border contains oval medallions, arabesques, rosettes, anthemia, and a term in each corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling for the Drawing room at Kedleston

Signed and dated

1760
1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (583 x 399)

Hand

Agostino Brunias with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 67
Harris, 2001, p. 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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