[11] Finished drawing for the side elevation of a castle-style house, 1791-92, as executed

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [11] Finished drawing for the side elevation of a castle-style house, 1791-92, as executed

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mauldsley or Mauldslie Castle, Lanarkshire: designs for a castle-style house and stables for Thomas Carmichael, 5th Earl of Hyndford, 1791-96, as executed (15)
    - Designs and finished drawings for a castle-style house, 1791-92, as executed (11)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/9

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for the side elevation of a castle-style house, 1791-92, as executed

Aspect

Side elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building over a half-sunk basement. The outer bays are circular crenelated towers with conical roofs. There is a continuous stringcourse above the first floor, as well as machicolated cornices, and crenelations. There are a mixture of square, segmental-arched and slit windows as well as oculi

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

End front of Maudsley Castle one of the seats of the Earl of Hyndford / (in pencil) 3d / with some annotations / (verso) some pencil annotations

Signed and dated

1791-92
datable to 1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (429x285)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk