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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/69

Purpose

[3] Design for the attic floor of a castle-style building, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Attic (garret) plan comprising a single range with circular and oval corner towers connected by balconies. Rooms include bedrooms, a library, laundry and dressing room

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Honorable [sic] The Earl of Lauderdale ~ / (and in an unknown hand) Attick Story of Thirlstane Castle / Dress / Bed / Bed / Sou[_ _] / Bed / Balcony / Balcony / Laundry / Bed / Bed / Bed / Library / Bed / Bed / (verso) (in pencil) 15 / 15 (in pen) number 15 / 4 Lauder on Thirlstane Castle for the Earl of Lauderdale

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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