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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

Record drawings for the urn and cistern of a seventeenth-century wine fountain, c1760-62 (3)

Adam volumes 25/81-25/83 are all on one sheet. Adam volume 54/3/1 is a rough version of Adam volumes 25/82 and 25/83.

These drawings, along with the others of metalwork designed by James Stuart, were made by the Adam office in order to assist Adam in designing the plate arrangement for the sideboard tables in the niche of the dining room. The urn and cistern of the wine fountain were sold in 1947; the urn now belongs to the V&A, and the cistern to the Goldsmiths Company.

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