[9] Finished drawing for a boathouse, c1775-78, 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)
      - Finished drawing for a boathouse, c1775-78, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/41

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for a boathouse, c1775-78, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation within a landscape, showing a boathouse with one mooring, flanked by turrets, and with a walkway around the interior walls of the mooring. The elevation shows a lancet-arched opening to the mooring, surmounted by balustrading, and with a narrow two-storey pepper-pot turret on one side, and a larger tower containing a spiral staircase to the other. The staircase presumably leads to the balustraded roof over the mooring

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Boat House for The Earl of Exeter at Burleigh (in the hand of William Adam) / this was never shewn to my Lord Exeter nor did he know that it was done (verso) 4 / Number 8 / at Boat House for the Earl of Exeter

Signed and dated

1775-1778
date range: 1775-78

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte on laid paper (486 x 617)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
Richardson, 1992, p. 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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