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[44] 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/45
Purpose
[44] Design for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed
Aspect
Plan of a room containing a semicircular cold bath, flanked on either side by staircases from the upper floor, and underneath which are a closet and water closet, and beyond are small inlets for boats with apsidal ends
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Plan of the Cold Bath and Boat Houses for Lord Scarsdale / at Kiddleston and dimensions given
10/158 Curzon [ _ _ _ _ ] (in feint pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1769-1770
date range: 1769-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (595 x 487)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with for Lord Scarsdale / at Kiddleston in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
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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