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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

Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1761 (1)

The coved ceiling for the great staircase was not executed (see note to Adam volumes 40/24 and 40/25), but a ceiling design very similar to this was executed in the stairwell at Shelburne House.

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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)

[129] Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1761

1761

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

SM Adam volume 11/55

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