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[31] Preliminary design for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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- 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 9/132 verso
Purpose
[31] Preliminary design for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan and elevation of a two-storey, five-bay house, each front with a pediment, and roofed with a dome, with canted bays on opposite fronts, one containing a staircase and the other a door flanked by niches, and colonnaded bows on the adjacent fronts, one containing a further door. The interior is divided into three rooms, and all four bows are crowned with balustrading forming balconies on the first floor
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1760
datable to c1760
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pen on laid paper (199 x 287)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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