[72] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760, executed with alterations

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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 design and alternative designs for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/15

Purpose

[72] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation with caryatid stiles, a wide figurative tablet, and a frieze of a festoon and urn on the left of the tablet, and a festoon and enclosed rosette on the right

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Kedleston (in the hand of William Adam) (Drawing Room) (in the hand of A.T. Bolton)

Signed and dated

1760
1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (396 x 260)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with inscriptions in the hand of William Adam and A.T. Bolton

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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