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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/37

Purpose

[24] Alternative design showing an elevation for the principal front of the gateway, c1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a gateway and lodge, with a three-and-a-half-storey, gothic lodge, with a stepped gable pitched roof, and chimney stack to one side, and with arched and square headed windows, and a one-by two-bay wooden lean-to at one side, and with an arched entrance, barred by wooden gates on the left-hand side, with a door beyond, and the whole is flanked by wooden picket fences

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Gothick Gateway for Oaks Castle one of the Seats of the Earl of Derby (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • c1777
    datable to c1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (520 x 275)

Hand

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

Watermark

JKOOL surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, Index p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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