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[5] Design for a castle-style building, c.1790, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/80
Purpose
[5] Design for a castle-style building, c.1790, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a three-storey, thirteen-bay building, with a hipped roof, over a half-sunk basement, with circular corner towers, a central porch with balustraded, ramped carriage access and steps, and adjoining single-storey walls to the ends of the building. The entire house is adorned with multipaned arched windows, slit windows and oculi, as well as machicolated cornices, string coursing, crosses, crenelations, and heraldry
Scale
to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for the East Front of Fullarton Castle in the Shire of Ayr / The seat of Colonel William Fullarton
Signed and dated
- c.1790
datable to c.1790
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (509x266)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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