[2] Design for the second floor of a castle-style building, 1790, unexecuted

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  - Thirlestane Castle: designs for alterations and additions to the house and grounds, for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, 1790, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/68

Purpose

[2] Design for the second floor of a castle-style building, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Second floor plan comprising a single range with circular corner towers at one end and oval corner towers at the other connecting to single-room projecting ends. The central range contains a series of turret windows and stairs. Rooms include bedrooms and chambers, dressing rooms, a dining room, drawing room and chapel

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Thirlstane or Lauder Castle one of the Seats the Right Honorable the Earl of Lauderdale / Second Story / (and in an unknown hand) Dress / Dress / Bed Ch^m / Drawing room / Dining room / Lobby / Bed / Chapel / Dress / Bed and some room dimensions in pencil. (Verso) 3

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (305x487)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Robert Adam

Watermark

W surmounted with a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1992, p. 30
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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