[3] 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 34/76

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a single-storey, single-bay building with a central niche within a relieving arch, with a panel flanked by bucrania above followed by a continuous fluted frieze and moulded cornice, with a domed roof

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South Front of a Mausoleum for Westerkirk

Signed and dated

23/12/1790
Edin^r. 23 Dece^r 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including Payne’s grey and Naples yellow on laid paper (464x299)

Hand

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

Watermark

W surmounted by fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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