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  • image SM Adam volume 52/96

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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