[117] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed

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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 record drawing for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/26

Purpose

[117] Preliminary design for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail of a ceiling ornamented with alternating roundels and octagonal panels containing rosettes encircled by wreaths, and with patera on four sides, and with arabesques along the edges

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

This Ceiling is thought Would Answer best for the / Ionic Music Room & the other for the Doric Library

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (233 x 191)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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