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  • image SM Adam volume 40/30

Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/30

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular farm and stable court with a colonnaded carriage house, carriage entrances, and different functions within each range and corner pavilion. The front and rear ranges have a five-bay central block, five-bay links, and one-bay corner pavilions. The side ranges have three-bay central blocks flanked by one-bay entrances and one-bay 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) / Slaughter house / Hen / House / Yard / Yard / Styes / Yard / Place for Waggons and Carts with a Grainery over it / Dog Kennel / Yard / Dog Kennel / Carpenters Shop / Passage / Barn / Passage / Smiths Shop / Byre with Stalls for 16 Oxen / Calves Room / Principal Entry / Harness Room / Stables for 12 Horses / Bayliffs Room / Passage / Place for Corn / Barn / Threshing Floor / Place for Corn / Passage and dimensions given (verso) 3 / 3

Signed and dated

  • c1763
    datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (552 x 407)

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

Level

Drawing

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