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[130] Preliminary design of a frieze for the staircase, 1761, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/96
Purpose
[130] Preliminary design of a frieze for the staircase, 1761, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a frieze composed of urns on pedestals, and a half-putti with a scrolled foliate tail
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Saloon at Kedleston / Frieze for Staircase / the divisions are the Centres of the Pilasters (in feint pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1761
datable to 1761
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on sugar paper (311 x 196)
Hand
Robert 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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