[5] Design giving a plan, elevation and section for the dairy, 1776, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Knowsley Park, Lancashire: unexecuted designs for a lodge, and alterations and additions to the house, and executed designs for a dairy, for the 12th Earl of Derby, 1776-77 (9)
    - Preliminary design and designs for a dairy, 1776-77, as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/41

Purpose

[5] Design giving a plan, elevation and section for the dairy, 1776, as executed

Aspect

Plan, elevation and section of a dairy building, with a two-storey, three-bay, circular central block, with a conical roof, surmounted by a circular lantern with a conical roof, and with a central spiral staircase, and with a central door, flanked by Doric columns supporting a miniature pediment, and the door is flanked by windows, and in the upper register is a rectangular figurative panel flanked by oculus windows, and the central block is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay links, with pitched roofs, and with a door within a relieving arch, and one of which contains a staircase, and beyond the links are one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pedimented pavilions, one containing two storeys of rooms, and the other containing an octagonal room with a niche in each corner, and a high coved ceiling, possible with a semi-dome at each end (verso) pencil-drawn detail of a frieze, composed of alternating and connected calyx and anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan Elevation and Section of a Dairy for Lady Derby at Knowsley (in the hand of William Adam) / (and in pencil) Design of a Dairy for the Countess of Derby at Knowsley Park / A / Scullery to Dairy / Room and some measurements given (verso) Plan Elevation & Section of a Dairy house for / the Countess of Derby at Knowsley Park / This to be placed Eleventh (in red pen) and some rough calculations in pencil

Signed and dated

22/06/1776
Adelphi June 22d 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (365 x 522)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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