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[50] 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 40/54
Purpose
[50] Design for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed
Aspect
Elevation of the central block (Variant of the central block in Adam volume 40/43), being a three-and-a-half storey, one-bay building, with a rusticated ground floor with a segmental Diocletian window, a balustraded Corinthian Venetian window within a relieving arch above, surmounted by a panel of swags and flanked by giant Corinthian pilasters, and supporting an attic storey with a further Diocletian window and a pyramidal roof
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Design for Lord Scarsdale at Kiddleston / 61 (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 (411 x 267)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription 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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