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[52] Design for the walls for the fishing room, 1770, 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/46
Purpose
[52] Design for the walls for the fishing room, 1770, executed
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevations for a square room, with a Venetian window, a door and two segmental-headed urn-filled niches on the wall opposite, and further niches on the side walls either side of a chimneypiece surmounted by candelabra and a mirror on one wall, and a rectangular sculpture-filled recess on the other. The walls are ornamented with figurative and grisaille panels
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Plan and Section of the Fishing Room / and Boat house for Lord Scarsdale / 54 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and dimensions given (verso) 4 / This to be placed Fifteenth / Fishing Room & Boat house at Keddlestone
Signed and dated
- 1770
datable to 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (812 x 617)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 81
Harris, 2006, pp. 25-26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 81
Harris, 2006, pp. 25-26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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