[59] Finished drawing for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations to the internal arrangement, and minus the southern quadrants and pavilions

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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)
    - Designs for alterations to, and completion of, the house
      - Finished drawings for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations to the internal arrangement, and minus the southern quadrants and pavilions (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/1

Purpose

[59] Finished drawing for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations to the internal arrangement, and minus the southern quadrants and pavilions

Aspect

Elevation of the north front of a three-storey, eleven-bay central block with a hipped roof, a portico of six giant Corinthian columns across the central five bays, supported by a rusticated arcaded loggia, and surmounted by a pediment, and with external half-turn stairs to either side. The central block is flanked on either side by a two-storey, six-bay curved link, with a flat roof, and with a rusticated, arcaded ground floor, and the first floor colonnaded with Ionic columns and pilasters, and beyond is a three-storey, five-bay pavilion with a hipped roof, and with a portico of four giant engaged Ionic columns, supported by a rusticated basement, and surmounted by a pediment with three acroteria supporting figurative sculptures

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

NORTH FRONT of the NEW DESIGN for KEDLESTON HOUSE The Seat of SIR NATHANIEL CURZON BARONET in DERBYSHIRE / Now Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) and some dimensions given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

1760
datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (2249 x 506)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

VDL and a garter cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Harris, 1987, pp. 22-23
Harris, 2001, p. 336
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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