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  • image SM Adam volume 40/50

Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/50

Purpose

[8] Finished design for north lodge, 1759, executed

Aspect

Plan of a three-bay gatehouse, with a central carriageway flanked on either side by a single-bay lodge, with an engaged column at the front corners of the gateway, with doors on three walls of the lodges, and one lodge containing a circular closet, staircase and chimneypiece

Scale

bar scale of 3/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of a Gateway for Lord Scarsdale at Keddleston / 58 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) (verso) This to be placed Sixteenth / Gateway for Kiddleston

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (560 x 389)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 77
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 338
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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