[1] Preliminary design giving a plan showing additions to the house, 1776, unexecuted

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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, design and finished drawing for alterations and enlargments to the house, 1776, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/51

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design giving a plan showing additions to the house, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of an asymmetrical U-shaped house, with a seven-bay central block, with the end bays projecting and flanked by circular corner towers, and with a three-bay bow on the garden front, and square towers on the end corners, and the central block is flanked by asymmetrical ranges, and connected to these are two further ranges forming three sides of a court

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chapple or a / Menagerie or Tennis Court / An Appartment / Library / Picture Room / Billiard Room / Library / antiroom / Great Drawg room / Great Eating Room / Hall / Lady Derbys dressg room / Lady Dys Bed Chr / Wardrobe / Lord Derbys Dreddg room / P.R. / W.C. / Serts room / Lady Maid

Signed and dated

1776
datable to 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (752 x 459)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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