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[25] Finished drawing for a farm house, 1759-61, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/59
Purpose
[25] Finished drawing for a farm house, 1759-61, unexecuted
Aspect
Plans of the first and second floors, and elevation of the principal front, of a three-storey, three-bay, T-shaped central block with a hipped roof, one-storey, one-bay links with semicircular-headed doors, and one-and-half-storey, one-bay pavilions with pitched roofs. The pavilions extend back into domestic and agricultural spaces, with a hay loft above in the apex of the roof
Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Plan & Elevation of a Farm House for the Tenants of / Lord Scarsdale at Kiddleston (in the hand of William Adam) / Cheese Chamber / Cheese Chamber / Cheese Chamber / Plan of Attick Story got partly out of / the Roof (underwritten in pencil) / Open Passage / Bed room / Bed room / Passage / Bed room / Roof hid under the parrapit (underwritten in pencil) / Hay loft / Brewhouse / Continued / One pair of stairs Story / Elevation of a Farm House for the Tenants of Sr Nathl Curson Baronet / Ld Scarsdale (in pencil) / now Lord Scarsdale (in the hand of William Adam) / 29 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and dimensions given (verso) This to be placed Twenty first / Farm house for Keddleston
Signed and dated
- 1759-1761
date range: 1759-61
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (393 x 514)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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