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[76] Design for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1765
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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 20/8
Purpose
[76] Design for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1765
Aspect
Elevation of an oval mirror set between two windows, and with a frame ornamented with candle branches, acanthus leaves, arabesques, an urn, and an anthemion enclosed within a wreath, as executed
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Glass frame for the Great Drawing room at Kedleston
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (240 x 405)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50, 86
Harris, 1987, p. 40
Harris, 2001, pp. 29, 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50, 86
Harris, 1987, p. 40
Harris, 2001, pp. 29, 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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