[8] Finished drawing for a lodge with gates, 1794, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Dalkeith House, Midlothian: executed designs for a bridge and porter’s lodge with gates, and an unexecuted design for a sundial, for Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, c.1791-94 (8)
    - Design for a porter’s lodge with gates, 1794, executed to a variant design (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/62

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for a lodge with gates, 1794, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Upper: Elevation of a single-storey lodge with a semi-circular columned porch with pyramidal roof. To the right is an adjoining wall with piers supporting gates decorated with modillions. The inner piers have lamps whilst there are pencil outlines of stags on the outer piers Lower: Plan of lodge comprising a bedroom and sitting room with corner fireplaces and a semi-circular lobby to the front and adjoining walls with gate piers to the right with stable yard beyond

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan and Elevation of a Lodge and Gateway proposed to be built at Dalkeith / for His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh / Garden / Bedroom / Lobby / Sitting Room / Plan / Stable / Yard / Mr Alviss / House with some room dimensions and pencil annotations / (verso) Cottage for the Duke of Buccleugh / (In another hand) Galloway Cottage & Lodge / 2/2 / (In another hand) number 8

Signed and dated

1794
Ja^s Adam Archⁱ Lond^o 1794

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double-ruled border on laid paper (468x276)

Hand

Adam, James (1730--1794)

Watermark

W surmounted by a shield with a fleur de lis above

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, Index, 1922, p. 9
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 334-335
Further literary references in scheme notes

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Drawing

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