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[17] Preliminary design for a viewing tower, 1759-60, 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 9/152 verso
Purpose
[17] Preliminary design for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan and elevation of a four-storey, three-bay tower, with a central circular tower, supported by a square basement and enclosed by square balconies, and framed by four corner turrets. With a rusticated basement containing a central arched entrance, giant columns spanning the first and second floor balcony, and with a Venetian window on the third storey. The roof is balustraded forming a fourth-storey viewing platform
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1759-1760
date range: 1759-60
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (271 x 184)
Hand
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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