[8] Design for a house and stables, c.1790-92, executed in part

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Dunbar House, also known as Lauderdale House, East Lothian: Designs for additions to a house for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, 1790-92, executed in part (12)
    - Designs for a house, 1790-92, executed in part (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/49

Purpose

[8] Design for a house and stables, c.1790-92, executed in part

Aspect

Perspective view of a country house with a small folly in the foreground. Drawn in pencil on the left is a large stable block and court along with rooftops of the nearby town

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) View of Lord Lauderdales House at Dunbar / (and in pencil) View of Lord Lauderdales House at Dunbar / (verso) No 1 [_ _ ] / No 1 [_ _ ] / Ground Plan

Signed and dated

c.1790-92
datable to 1790-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (478x304)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam or James Adam

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 10
King, 2001, Volume 2, p. 244
Further literary references in the scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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