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[22] Finished drawing for a viewing tower, 1759-60, 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/32
Purpose
[22] Finished drawing for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a four-storey, domed, circular tower, with domed corner turrets, a rusticated ground floor with a semicircular-headed entrance, a balustraded balcony and aedicular windows and doors on the first floor, and giant Corinthian columns which run through the first and second floors, and the third floor has a balustraded viewing platform supported by the giant Corinthian columns, and with a Venetian window within a relieving arch, and rectangular recesses
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Tower for Kiddleston / for Lord Scarsdale
Signed and dated
- 1759-1760
date range: 1759-60
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (386 x 526)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
V and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and JVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 88
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 88
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
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