[11] Design for a boathouse, 1778, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Burghley House, Lincolnshire: designs for the interior of the house, partly executed, and unexecuted designs for a boathouse and gateway for the 9th Earl of Exeter, 1765-79 (16)
    - Designs for a boathouse and an entrance gateway (10)
      - Preliminary design and design for a boathouse, 1778, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/38

Purpose

[11] Design for a boathouse, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a boathouse as Adam volume 1/90, with the plan showing walkways around the inner walls of the moorings, and spiral staircases in two of the turrets, presumably leading to the balustraded roof over the moorings

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Elevation of a Boat House for the Right Honble The Earl of Exeter proposed to be built upon a piece of Water at Burghleigh House / Plan of a Boat House

Signed and dated

July 1778
Adelphi / 24th July 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen within a single ruled border on laid paper (477 x 522)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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