[12] Preliminary design for an ironwork gate, 1759, executed with alterations

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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
      - Variant preliminary designs for an ironwork gate, 1759, executed with alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/48

Purpose

[12] Preliminary design for an ironwork gate, 1759, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a ironwork double gate within an arch, ornamented with bands of enclosed anthemia and a fluted frieze, and with pencil annotations including an anthemion and arabesques crowning the gate

Scale

bar scale of 8 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Gateway for Lord Scartsdale at Kittleston (sic)

Signed and dated

1759
datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (318 x 512)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with pencil annotations in the hand of Robert Adam, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG and fleur-de-lis withi crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 77
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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