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[25] Preliminary design for a dairy, c1767, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/186
Purpose
[25] Preliminary design for a dairy, c1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of an H-shaped building, with a two-bay central block, colonnaded on the principal and garden fronts with two columns, and flanked by one- by two-bay pavilions, one containing an octagonal tea room, and the other containing a circular dairy, and with a segmental court to the rear, connected to an additional, small rectangular one- by three-bay building, containing two bedrooms, and for which there is a rough elevation in the top left-hand corner of the sheet
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
Dairy & c. / for Sir James Lowther / [ _ _ _ _ _ ] House / Kitchen / Tea Room / Washing Pales / Antiroom / Scullery to Dairy / Dairy / with China / Doric Front and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1767
datable to c1767
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (327 x 203)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 222
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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