[8] Design for the elevation of a castellated-style stables, 1791, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - House of the Bush, Midlothian: designs for a house and stables for Robert Trotter, 1791, executed in part (9)
    - Designs for the elevation of a house and stables (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/91

Purpose

[8] Design for the elevation of a castellated-style stables, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a single-storey stable range comprising a central gate-house-style opening comprising a large archway flanked by turrets and surmounted by a crenelated clock tower, and terminating in two large pavilions with arched openings. There are a mixture of lancet, rectangular and slit windows as well as oculi. The elevation is decorated with crenelations, crosses, machicolated cornices and weathervanes

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Stable Offices for Robert Trotter Esq^r at the Bush (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

30/12/1791
datable to 30 December 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (378x212)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
King, volume 2, 2001, pp. 161, 216, 244
Further literary references in scheme notes

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