No fishy tale: a true account of the Fishing Room at Kedleston: built in 1770-72 as a picnic room, boat house and cold bath, Robert Adam's fishing room at Kedleston, Derbyshire, is one of his most enchanting designs. Eileen Harris traces its history and Alastair Laing proposes an attribution for its mysterious paintings of fish. From: Apollo | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Harris, Eileen; Laing, Alastair | COPYRIGHT 2006 Apollo Magazine Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Kedleston is blessed with 'water plenty': one or two tributaries of the River Derwent and several springs. (1) The first owner to exploit its potential in landscaping the park was Sir John Curzon, 3rd Bt (c. 1674-1727), who commissioned Charles Bridgeman in the 1720s to make a stupendous canal, 60 feet wide and more than 2,000 feet long, with a large octagonal pool directly opposite the house, a smaller circular pool downstream to the east, and a series of weirs between the two. (2...

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