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[46] 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 40/43
Purpose
[46] Design for the fishing room and boat house 1769-70, executed
Aspect
Elevation of a one-and-a-half storey, three-bay pedimented building, with a central door within a relieving arch, flanked by windows surmounted by roundels. The walls are articulated by Doric pilasters, and the pediment surmounted by acroteria
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of the Fishing Room at Kedleston for Lord Scarsdale (in three different hands) and some dimensions given, and rough calculations in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1769-1770
date range: 1769-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (197 x 267)
Hand
Two Adam office hands, possibly Robert Adam and Joseph Bonomi, with for Lord Scarsdale in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
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.
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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