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[5] Design for the principal front of a castle-style building, 1793, unexecuted
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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
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
King, Volume 2, 2001, pp. 138, 163
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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