Two alternative preliminary designs for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted (2)

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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)
    - Designs for buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn

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Two alternative preliminary designs for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted (2)

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Charlotte Curzon (c1753-1841) was the eldest daughter of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, and presumably this rustic building was intended to function as a sort of Wendy house for her. There is, however, some confusion over whether Adam volume 1/241 is indeed an alternative to the hut in Adam 1/242, as it is not inscribed, and may have been for a different pavilion or grotto. Neither design was executed.

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