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[32] Preliminary design for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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- 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 9/129
Purpose
[32] Preliminary design for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay house, each front with a pediment, and roofed with a dome, with a central canted bays containing a central aedicular door flanked by niches, and colonnaded bows shown in profile on the adjacent fronts, each crowned with balustrading to form a balcony on the first floor
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1760
datable to c1760
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (235 x 189)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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