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[3] Finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/26
Purpose
[3] Finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a one-and-a-half storey stable building with a central tripartite carriage arch within a relieving arch, with a pyramidal roof, and between two turrets with semicircular-headed niches, and surmounted by tholos-shaped lanterns. The turrets are flanked on either side by five-bay links containing stables, with rectangular recesses and semicircular-headed niches on the principal front, and tripartite windows on the rear, and with a pitched roof. The links connect with three-bay, pedimented end pavilions, also containing stables, and with a central window surmounted by a segmental pediment
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Stable for Sir Nathaniel Curson Baronet at Kedleston / now Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) / 25 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) / about 210 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) (verso) Lord Scarsdale Stable / Stable for Keddleston
Signed and dated
- 1759
datable to 1759
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (986 x 641)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez with now Lord Scarsdale in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 73
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 73
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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