Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [41] Finished drawing for an alternative stables, 1763, unexecuted

Browse

  • image Adam volume 40/27

Reference number

Adam volume 40/27

Purpose

[41] Finished drawing for an alternative stables, 1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevations for the exterior and interior fronts of a hexadecagon-shaped stable court. The exterior façade has a three-bay central block, with blind arches and a hipped roof, flanked on either side by three-bay links with pitched roofs, one-bay carriage arches with pitched roofs, further three-bay links, and the side elevation of the side ranges. The interior façade has the same three-bay central block, but with open carriage entrances surmounted by Diocletian windows; the links are colonnaded, and the side ranges are shown in section

Scale

1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Coach House & Stables at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale and some measurements given (verso) 2 / This to be placed Tenth

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes of pink and yellow ochre on laid paper (605 x 494)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Robert Nasmith, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk