[3] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Stobs Castle, Borders: designs for a castle-style building for Sir William Eliott 6th Baronet of Stobs, 1792, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/89

Purpose

[3] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Bed chamber (second) storey plan comprising a series of rooms arranged around a central staircase to the front of the building with roofs of the flanking pavilions and offices

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of Stobs Castle, & Roofs of the Offices. The Seat of Sir William Eliott Bart ~ / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Closet / Bed Chamber / Staircase / Closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber with some room dimensions / (verso) Sir William Elliot of Stobbs / 6 / (in a different hand) This to be placed Twentieth / (and in pencil ) 20

Signed and dated

28/01/1792
Albemarle Street / 28^th Janry 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash, and coloured wash including cerulean blue on laid paper (483x301)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, 1922, p. 29
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 175-6
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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