[60] 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 40/2

Purpose

[60] 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 south front of a three-storey, nine-bay central block, with a hipped roof interrupted by a drum and dome across the central three bays, and with a portico of four giant Corinthian columns across the central three bays, resting on a rusticated basement with curved external stairs. The central block is flanked on either side by a two-storey, four-bay curved link, with a flat roof, and with a rusticated, arcaded ground floor with rectangular, urn-filled recesses alternating with the arches; and the first floor is colonnaded with Ionic columns with tripartite openings alternating with sculpture-filled niches. Beyond is a two-storey, five-bay pavilion with a hipped roof, and with a rusticated, arcaded ground floor, and the first floor is articulated by Ionic pilasters with three Venetian windows in relieving arches, alternating with two tripartite colonnaded openings, all with Ionic columns. The pavilions have friezes of festoons

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

[South] Front of the New Design for Kedleston House / The Seat of Sir Nathaniel Curzon Baronet / Now Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1760
datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (2216 x 509)

Hand

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

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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