[29] Preliminary design for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, 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
      - Two alternative preliminary designs for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/242

Purpose

[29] Preliminary design for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a hut composed of two small ranges either side of a three-storey tower with a pitched, tiled roof and chimney stack with a two-storey opening, arched on one side, and with stiles and a lintel on the other, and with a external staircase. The range to the right is of one storey with a pitched, thatched roof, and porches to the front and side. The range to the left is two storeys high, with a pitched, tiled roof. There is a well in front of the hut, and with pencil annotations of a window on the right-hand side

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sketch of a Hutt for The Honble Miss Curzon at the / upper end of Garden at Kedleston

Signed and dated

1760-1770
date range: 1760-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (298 x 187)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 258
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999

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