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[34] Finished drawing for the pheasant house, c1760, 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)
- Country houses
Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/56
Purpose
[34] Finished drawing for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the first floor and side elevation of a two-storey, five-bay house with colonnaded bows on the ground floor of the front and rear, and canted bays on the ground floor of the side elevations. All four bows are balustraded forming balconies on the first floor. The elevation shows an aedicular window in the centre of the canted bays on the side elevation, flanked by semicircular-headed niches, and surmounted by a Diocletian window on the first floor. The door is pedimented and domed
Scale
1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevations and Plans of a Parsonage House at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1760
datable to c1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (265 x 415)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with title inscriptions in the hand of William 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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