[15] Design for a farm office building c1763-5, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
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      - Designs for a farm office building c1763-5, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/41

Purpose

[15] Design for a farm office building c1763-5, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevations of the inside and outside of a semicircular court of farm offices, composed of five one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, arcaded pavilions, with hipped and pyramidal roofs and four one-storey, five-bay link corridors, with pitched roofs. The links are colonnaded on the interior side of the court, and the end pavilions each have a Venetian window on their side

Scale

3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Back Front of Farm Offices Designed for Moor Park one of the Seats of Sir Laurence Dundass Baronet / Front to the Court / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) (1763-5) / 1st design / see RA Bill

Signed and dated

1763-1765
datable to 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (583 x 491)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, with pencil annotations in the hand

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 223
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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