[15] Design for a bridge, 1759-61, unexecuted

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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 designs for a bridge, 1759-61, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/84

Purpose

[15] Design for a bridge, 1759-61, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a bridge across a cascade set within a landscape, with a single segmental arch, fluted, and with an inscription panel, resting on two piers with sculpture-filled semicircular-headed niches, and surmounted by seated female sculptures, with a parapet of balustrading with lanterns, and balustraded abutments terminating in pedestals supporting fluted columns surmounted by lanterns, and with pencil annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Sketch of a Bridge for Sir Nath'l Curzon Baronet Over the River that / Joins The Two Lakes / 60 foot Span and rough calculations

Signed and dated

1759-1761
date range: 1759-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (323 x 158)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 78
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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