Preliminary design and finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted (2)

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Preliminary design and finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted (2)

Browse

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

Purpose

Preliminary design and finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted (2)

Notes

The original stable block at Kedleston was demolished to make way for the new house, and temporary stables were erected in 1759, probably to a design by the carpenter John Harris. This design by Adam was not executed but was the basis for Samuel Wyatt's later design, executed in 1767-69. Moreover, this design by Adam seems to have influenced Samuel Wyatt's later design for small domestic buildings at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire (1771), the seat of Assheton Curzon (1730-1820), Sir Nathaniel Curzon's brother.

There is a drawing similar to Adam volume 40/26 in the Kedleston collection, though it depicts a greater array of ornamental detail.

Level

Group

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Browse

Purpose

Notes

Level

Contents of Preliminary design and finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted (2)