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  • image SM Adam volume 29/7

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/7

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for the principal front of a castle-style house, 1791-2, as executed

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey building with flanking two-storey wings terminating in three-storey circular towers over a half-sunken basement. There is a central staircase to the principal (first) storey which contains a fan-lit entrance flanked by tall windows and the two floors above are set within a tall relieving arch with balustrades. There are hood mouldings and cills, a continuous stringcourse above the first floor, machicolated cornices, bartizans, crenelations, crow-stepped gables and heraldry. There are a mixture of square, slit and segmental-arched windows as well as oculi

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Maudlsley Castle in Clydesdale, one of the Seats of The Earl of Hyndford

Signed and dated

  • 1791-92
    datable to 1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (609x397)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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