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[35] Preliminary design for the garden façade of the Parsonage House (now the old rectory), c1761, executed with minor alterations
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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 9/104
Purpose
[35] Preliminary design for the garden façade of the Parsonage House (now the old rectory), c1761, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay house with different pyramidal, pitched and hipped roofs shown, and end chimney stacks, and the ground and first floor windows of the central bay within a relieving arch. In the bottom left-hand corner there is a pencil-drawn two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay house with a pyramidal roof and end chimney stacks
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Sketch of Parsonage House
Signed and dated
- c1761
datable to c1761
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pencil on laid paper (272 x 342)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 338
Level
Drawing
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