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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/53

Purpose

[49] Design for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed

Aspect

Elevation, with a two-and-a-half storey, one-bay central block with a broken-bed pediment, flanked on either side by one-storey, one-bay links with single windows, and one-storey, one-bay, pedimented boat houses with semicircular-headed arches. The central block has a window within a segmental arch on the ground floor, and a balustraded Ionic Venetian window above, and with three acroteria on the pediment. The ground floor across the central block, links and boathouses is rusticated and with a frieze of fluting and enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for Lord Scarsdale / Kedleston (in feint pencil) / 62 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

  • 1769-1770
    date range: 1769-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (511 x 603)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 83
King, 1991, Volume I, pp. 339-41
Musson, 1996, p. 42
Harris, 2006, pp. 24, 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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