[4] Preliminary design for the north front of the bath house, c1774, unexecuted

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  - Mistley Hall and Village, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1774-82 (34)
    - Preliminary designs, designs and a finished drawing for a bath house and a reservoir, c1774, unexecuted (12)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/165

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the north front of the bath house, c1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the north, water-facing front of a one-and-a-half storey, five-bay bath house, which is raised on a rusticated stylobate. The central three bays form a bowed, balustraded colonnade, articulated by Ionic columns, and with a central aedicule window, flanked by further windows. All this is surmounted by a drum, supporting a stepped dome, and is flanked by single-bay wings with pitched roofs. The bays terminate in a Ionic column, and contain an aedicule window, with a fluted frieze above. This is set within a landscape of trees, and with the detail of the river front complete with boat

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sketch of the front to the water-

Signed and dated

c1774
c1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (320 x 191)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Rigby salt water Bath

Watermark

PROPATRIA - Maid of Dort

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 22
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 249; Volume II, pp.182-3, 223
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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