[6] Design for the south front of the bath house, 1774, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mistley Hall and Village, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1774-82 (34)
    - Preliminary designs, designs and a finished drawing for a bath house and a reservoir, c1774, unexecuted (12)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/54

Purpose

[6] Design for the south front of the bath house, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a bath house, as SM Adam volume 10/156, but with the central entrance set within an aedicule. This is surmounted by a figurative tablet, and flanked by niches containing lekythoi, with a figurative roundel set above

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

South Front towards the Land of a Design for Salt Water Baths for the Right Honble Richard Rigby at Mistley Hall in Essex

Signed and dated

Dec 1774
Adelphi Dec.r 19.t 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (583 x 445)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 22
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 249; Volume II, pp.182-3, 223
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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