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[30] Preliminary design for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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- 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 1/241
Purpose
[30] Preliminary design for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a hut within a landscape. A two-storey building supported by an arched undercroft, with a pitched, thatched, roof, apses to either side, a Venetian window within a porch on the front, and with a curved external staircase winding around the building
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1760-1770
date range: 1760-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (298 x 187)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 258
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 258
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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