[21] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1771, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Lowther Hall and village, Penrith, Cumberland: designs for a model village, and unexecuted designs for rebuilding Lowther Hall, a dairy, banqueting house, gateway and stables for Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet, 1766-71 and 1785 (41)
    - Lowther Hall
      - Preliminary designs, a design, and a finished drawing (possibly made for publication) for a rectangular house, 1771, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/45

Purpose

[21] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite house, arranged around a central circular court, flanked by rectangular courts, one with the kitchen in the middle, and the other with a chapel in the middle, and the courts are enclosed by ranges of rooms, with octagonal, circular and square towers affixed to the façade, and with a central five-bay bow in the garden front, and three-bay bows on the principal and garden fronts, and the house contains, service, domestic and reception rooms

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of a New design for Lowther Hall the Seat of Sir James Lowther (the Seat of Sir James Lowther in the hand of William Adam, copied from above in feint pencil) / N.B. The Red Lines are the right ones (underwritten in pencil) / Sir James has a fairy Copy of this / No. 19 / Dressing Room / Servts Bed / Powdering Room / Toilet / Lady Mary's Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / P. Room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / P. Room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Servts Room / Anti room / Drawing Room / Drawing Room / Great Drawg room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Court / Roof over Kitchen / Court / Anti Room / Summer Eating Room / Anti room / Summer Drawing Room / The Great Gallery from North to South / 3 Windows like Venetians / Court / Chaple / Court / Bed Chamber / Servants Bed / Bed Chamber / Family Gallery / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Winter Drawing Room / Ladys Dressing room / P / Room / Bed Chamr / Passage / Gentlemans Dress room and measurements given

Signed and dated

1771
Janry 26t.1771.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen and pencil on laid paper (498 x 496)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonom, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D&BLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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