[42] Design for a bridge, 1764, executed

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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
      - Design of a Bridge, 1764, executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/42

Purpose

[42] Design for a bridge, 1764, executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite bridge with segmental arches supported by four piers containing sculpture-filled semicircular-headed niches and small grisaille panels, and the arches ornamented with roundels, rustication, and a balustraded parapet, and with a curved wall to the abutment

Scale

bar scale of 1 7/10 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Bridge for the Right Honble Lord Scarsdale proposed to be Built over a Fall of Water fronting His Lordships House at Kidleston Derbyshire (underwritten in pencil) / 50 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) (verso) This to be placed Fourteenth / Kedleston (cropped)

Signed and dated

1764
1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (1155 x 397)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 338
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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