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[8] Finished design for north lodge, 1759, executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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.
Harris, 1987, p. 77
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 338
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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