Plans & Uprights of Kedleston House (now empty)
Category
Ephemera
Date
circa 1760
Materials
Half leather over marbled paper boards with gilt-lettered leather cover label
Measurements
292 x 490 mm
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 109413
Summary
Sketchbook, now empty apart from blank leaves. Folio. Bound in 18th-century half leather (calf or sheep) over marbled paper boards; quarter gilt fillet. Sewn on five cords. Gilt tooling on spine. Red morocco title label [19th-century?] pasted on upper cover, gilt decorative panel with lettering in gilt: "Plans & Uprights of Kedleston House". Leather on corners of lower cover worn and damaged. Spine joints broken. Some red rot. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on upper pastedown: Curzon impaling Colyear, motto: Recte et Suaviter [bookplate also found in books in Library]. In 1986, it contained a mixture of attached and loose drawings, now all removed. See CMS inv. nos: 109414-109427. Watermark in remaining sheets: Strasbourg bend with monogram LVG; countermark: JW.
Provenance
Bound probably for Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale. By descent to Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale. Acquired by gift as part of the transfer of Kedleston Hall to the National Trust in 1987.