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[133] Finished drawing for ceiling for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/51
Purpose
[133] Finished drawing for ceiling for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a ceiling in two parts, one square and the other an elongated oval. The square compartment is ornamented with a central rosette encircled by rosettes, bows, festoons, urns, medallions, a circular band of anthemia, lunette panels alternately containing half flowers and fluting. The oval compartment has a central square containing a rosette encircled by fluting and anthemia, within a diamond of fluting, and framed by lunettes containing half flowers, and festoons, and this square is flanked on either side by a circular panel containing a rosette encircled by enclosed anthemia, calyx, and a garland
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the anti room at Kedleston
Signed and dated
- October 1767
Oct. 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (585 x 443)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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