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[6] Finished drawing for a greenhouse, 1759, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/38
Purpose
[6] Finished drawing for a greenhouse, 1759, unexecuted
Aspect
Side elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay building, with a pitched roof surmounted by acroteria supporting figurative sculptures, with rectangular windows on the ground floor, and half-height windows above, and with steps to the rear, and a fluted Corinthian column and the stylobate continued by a low wall
Scale
bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
One End of the Green house for Sir Nathaniel Curson Bart at Kedleston / now Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) / 46 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) (verso) 2 / Lord Scarsale / 2 / Kedleston / Green House
Signed and dated
- 1759
datable to 1759
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (484 x 596)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with additions to the title inscription in an office hand and a number inscribed in pencil in an unknown modern curatorial hand
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 71
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 71
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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