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[13] Design showing an elevation of the garden front for the fourth scheme, c1777, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/18
Purpose
[13] Design showing an elevation of the garden front for the fourth scheme, c1777, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the garden (north) front of a house, composed of three blocks, with a central three-bay block, with an arcade across the ground storey, and arched windows above, flanked by single-bay circular towers on each side, and surmounted by bartizans and a four-sided step-gabled pediment, and this block is flanked by two-storey, single-bay links, with the upper windows within relieving arches, and beyond are further two-storey blocks, also with towers on each side, and step-gabled pediments, but with tripartite windows, arched in the first storey
Scale
bar scale of ¾ inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of the Garden front of Oaks Castle one of the Seats of the Earl of Derby shewing the windows to the / present Eating room, the apartments intended over it and the ends of the new wings and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1777
datable to c1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (443 x 302)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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