[17] Preliminary design for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted

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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 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
      - Preliminary design and finished drawings for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted (6)

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SM Adam volume 9/152 verso

Purpose

[17] Preliminary design for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a four-storey, three-bay tower, with a central circular tower, supported by a square basement and enclosed by square balconies, and framed by four corner turrets. With a rusticated basement containing a central arched entrance, giant columns spanning the first and second floor balcony, and with a Venetian window on the third storey. The roof is balustraded forming a fourth-storey viewing platform

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1759-1760
date range: 1759-60

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (271 x 184)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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