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[45] 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 1/9
Purpose
[45] Design for the fishing room and boat house 1769-70, executed
Aspect
Elevation of a one-and-a-half storey, three-bay building, with a broken-bed pediment, with a central roundel and festoons, and supporting acroteria. On the ground floor the bays are articulated by Doric pilasters, with rectangular windows in the outer bays, with rectangular panels or medallions above, and a door in the central bay surmounted by a fan-light, and with pencil annotations and alterations (verso) rough drawing for a chimneypiece with Ionic pilaster stiles
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- 1769-1770
date range: 1769-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (385 x 322)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
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.
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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