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[64] Preliminary design for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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 54/1/33
Purpose
[64] Preliminary design for alternative design for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plans of two variant rectangular ceilings, one with a central rosette within a oval panel, set against an x-shape arrangement, and with festoons around the edges, and the other being a compartmental ceiling with a central square containing an enclosed rosette encircled by festoons and four roundels, framed by octagonal and elongated octagonal compartments containing rosettes and grisaille
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
This Sketch it is imagined will answer for the flatt / part of the Cieling of Sr Nathl Cursons Hall of which / the Cove to be done with Pannelling also
Signed and dated
- 1760-1761
date range: 1760-61
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (194 x 201)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Hardy, 1978, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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