[38] Finished drawing for farm offices containing stables, c1763, 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
      - Finished drawings for farm offices containing stables, c1763, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/31

Purpose

[38] Finished drawing for farm offices containing stables, c1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan as drawing Adam volume 40/30 but showing the upper storey, with the roof of the ranges, and the upper storey of the front and rear central blocks and corner pavilions

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Farm Offices at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) / Grainery / 39 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and dimensions given (verso) 4 / This to be placed Eleventh / Farm Offices for Kiddleston

Signed and dated

c1763
datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (567 x 436)

Hand

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

Watermark

IV and LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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