[19] 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)
    - 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
      - Preliminary design and finished drawings for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/34

Purpose

[19] Finished drawing for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first floor of a circular tower with an inner cella wall pierced with six windows, two of which are blind, and a door, and with a chimneypiece, and an outer curtain of columns and balustrading, with four corner towers, one of which contains a spiral staircase

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of Tower for Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale / 42 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

1759-1760
date range: 1759-60

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (593 x 507)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 88
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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