[2] Design for an elevation of a mausoleum, 1790, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Monuments and mausolea
  - Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire: designs for a family mausoleum for Sir James Johnstone, 1790, as executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/75

Purpose

[2] Design for an elevation of a mausoleum, 1790, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay building with a central pedimented entrance comprising panelled double-doors with a keystone, supported by paired quasi-Greek Doric columns with bucrania, flanked by niches with a continuous fluted frieze above, with a domed roof

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

West Front of a Mausoleum or Burying place for Westerkirk / (in the hand of William Adam) the Seat of / Sir James Johnstone Bart / (verso) Mausoleum at Westerkirk / 6 Pieces [ _ _ _] 4 elevations / Plan / from no 6

Signed and dated

23/12/1790
Edinburgh 23 Dece^r 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including Payne’s grey, Naples yellow and ochre on laid paper (465x281)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, John Robertson or John Paterson

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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