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- Monuments and mausolea
  - Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire: monument to John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, probably commissioned by Elizabeth, Countess of Glasgow, 1775, as executed (14)

Preliminary design and finished drawings for the first scheme for the funerary monument, 1775, unexecuted (3)

Adam's first scheme for the funerary monument does not show the executed design.

It is interesting to note that Adam volume 19/15 is folded as if it has been sent to the client.

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Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire: monument to John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, probably commissioned by Elizabeth, Countess of Glasgow, 1775, as executed (14)

[1] Preliminary design showing a rough elevation of the first scheme for the funerary monument, 1775, unexecuted

datable to 1775

Robert Adam

SM Adam volume 21/200

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Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire: monument to John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, probably commissioned by Elizabeth, Countess of Glasgow, 1775, as executed (14)

[2] Finished drawing showing a plan and elevation for the first scheme for the funerary monument, 1775, unexecuted

datable to 1775

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

SM Adam volume 19/15

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Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire: monument to John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, probably commissioned by Elizabeth, Countess of Glasgow, 1775, as executed (14)

[3] Finished drawing showing a plan and elevation for the first scheme for the funerary monument, 1775, unexecuted

Sept / 1775 (all in pencil)

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

SM Adam volume 19/16

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