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[24] Alternative design showing an elevation for the principal front of the gateway, c1777, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 29/37
Purpose
[24] Alternative design showing an elevation for the principal front of the gateway, c1777, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a gateway and lodge, with a three-and-a-half-storey, gothic lodge, with a stepped gable pitched roof, and chimney stack to one side, and with arched and square headed windows, and a one-by two-bay wooden lean-to at one side, and with an arched entrance, barred by wooden gates on the left-hand side, with a door beyond, and the whole is flanked by wooden picket fences
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Gothick Gateway for Oaks Castle one of the Seats of the Earl of Derby (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- c1777
datable to c1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (520 x 275)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JKOOL surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, Index p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, Index p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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