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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/31

Purpose

[5] Design for the principal front of a castle-style building, 1793, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation of a two-storey castle-style building with flanking single-storey pavilions connected by links, over a half-sunk basement. The central block has two circular towers flanking the central three bays and square corner towers on the outer bays. The building is adorned with crenellations and machicolated cornices and there is a cartouche and corner bartizans over the central bay at roof level. There is a mixture of square, slit, lancet, cross and segmental-arched windows as well as oculi

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the Entrance front of Knockear Castle the Seat of John Buchanan Esqr ~ / (verso) Knockear Castle

Signed and dated

  • 1793
    datable to 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (466x249)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

W surmounted by a shield with a fleur de lis above

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, Index, 1922, p.20
King, Volume 2, 2001, pp. 138, 163
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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