[79] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1760

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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
      - Alternative designs for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1760 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/16

Purpose

[79] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1760

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with a term and a herm for stiles, flanked by coin moulding, and with a figurative tablet, and frieze ornamented with a stem of wheat crossed with a sickle within a wreath to the left of the tablet, and an urn crossed with a thyrsus within a wreath to the right, as executed

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Kedleston House / (Dining Room) (in the hand of A.T. Bolton)

Signed and dated

1760
1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (136 x 285)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to the title inscription in the hand of A.T. Bolton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 67
Beard, 1978, p. 39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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