[19] Design for a tea pavilion, 1763-65, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
    - Designs for buildings in the park
      - Designs and finished drawings for a tea pavilion, 1763-65, as executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/45

Purpose

[19] Design for a tea pavilion, 1763-65, as executed

Aspect

Section of a one-and-a-half-storey, octagonal room, with a domed ceiling which extends into the upper register, and three windows surmounted by Diocletian windows, and ornamented with palm trees

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Ornamental Cottage for Sir Laurance [sic] Dundas (in the hand of William Adam, and on a separate sheet) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1763-1765
datable to 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (246 x 211)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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