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[49] Design for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed
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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 40/53
Purpose
[49] Design for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed
Aspect
Elevation, with a two-and-a-half storey, one-bay central block with a broken-bed pediment, flanked on either side by one-storey, one-bay links with single windows, and one-storey, one-bay, pedimented boat houses with semicircular-headed arches. The central block has a window within a segmental arch on the ground floor, and a balustraded Ionic Venetian window above, and with three acroteria on the pediment. The ground floor across the central block, links and boathouses is rusticated and with a frieze of fluting and enclosed rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design for Lord Scarsdale / Kedleston (in feint pencil) / 62 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)
Signed and dated
- 1769-1770
date range: 1769-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (511 x 603)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 83
King, 1991, Volume I, pp. 339-41
Musson, 1996, p. 42
Harris, 2006, pp. 24, 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, p. 83
King, 1991, Volume I, pp. 339-41
Musson, 1996, p. 42
Harris, 2006, pp. 24, 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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