[2] Preliminary design for stables, 1759, unexecuted

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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 buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/139

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for stables, 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation with a two-storey building, with a three-bay central block with a tripartite carriage entrance surmounted by a Diocletian window, balustrading along the roofline, a pyramidal roof, and the two outer bays composed of turrets with niches and tholos-shaped lantern tops. This is flanked on either side by a five-bay link with a pitched roof, alternating niches and windows, and with a sculpture panel in the upper register, and three-bay pedimented end pavilions with acroteria, the central one supporting a sculpted horse, and with a segmental pediment over the central window

Scale

not to scale but roughly 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Sketch of a Stable for Sir Natha'l Curzon to be about 200 feet long and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1759
datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (328 x 148)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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