[4] Finished drawing for a greenhouse, 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
      - Finished drawings for a greenhouse, 1759, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/40

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a greenhouse, 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan with a three-bay central front - each bay being tripartite and divided by columns, and with a ten step stylobate, with three-bay sides of one window and two blind windows each, and a three-bay rear. The interior space is divided into two rooms. There are pencil-drawn annotations dividing the principal interior space into three, with doors between each room, and with a chimneypiece in the central space denoting domestic use: perhaps a tea room for admiring the plants

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Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Green house for Sr Nathl Curson at Kedleston / now Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) / 48 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and some dimensions given (verso) 13 (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1759
datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (607 x 512)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with additions to the title inscription in an office hand and a number inscribed in pencil in an unknown modern curatorial hand

Watermark

VDL and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 71
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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