[26] Finished drawing for a dog kennel, 1765, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
    - Designs for buildings in the park
      - Finished drawings for a dog kennel, 1765, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/47

Purpose

[26] Finished drawing for a dog kennel, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey pedimented central block, articulated by rusticated Doric pilasters, and with an oculus window in the tympanum of the pediment, flanked by one-storey, three-bay pavilions, with hipped roofs, and enclosed by a perimeter wall seen here in section

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of a Dog Kennel for Thomas Dundas Esqr / (at ASK) RS Bill (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)

Signed and dated

1765
Robt Adam Architect 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (508 x 274)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Verso

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 223
For a full list of literature see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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