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[26] Preliminary design for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted
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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 54/3/30
Purpose
[26] Preliminary design for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation with a single-step stylobate, a circular pedestal ornamented with lion masks and festoons, supporting bands of acanthus and laurel leaves, a spiral fluted shaft banded with a rectangular inscription panel, and surmounted by a socle carrying a domed top and a small figurative sculpture
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Road to Leeds
Signed and dated
- 1760
datable to 1760
Medium and dimensions
Brown pencil on laid paper (122 x 261)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 90; King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 90; King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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