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  - Eaton Hall, Cheshire, unexecuted designs for a menagerie and banqueting house, and for alterations and additions to the house for Baron Grosvenor (later 1st Earl Grosvenor), c1766-68 (19)

Preliminary design for a menagerie and banqueting house, and finished drawing for a banqueting house, 1766, unexecuted, 1766 (2)

The combination of a menagerie and a banqueting room in one building is unusual. Neither a menagerie house containing a banqueting room, nor an individual banqueting house was built at Eaton Hall.

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Eaton Hall, Cheshire, unexecuted designs for a menagerie and banqueting house, and for alterations and additions to the house for Baron Grosvenor (later 1st Earl Grosvenor), c1766-68 (19)

[1] Preliminary design for a menagerie and banqueting house, 1766, unexecuted

Eaton Hall, Cheshire, unexecuted designs for a menagerie and banqueting house, and for alterations and additions to the house for Baron Grosvenor (later 1st Earl Grosvenor), c1766-68 (19)

[2] Finished drawing for a banqueting house, 1766, unexecuted

Rob Adam Archt 1766

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

SM Adam volume 19/140

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