[10] Finished drawing for a lodge, c.1781, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Lodges for the Earl of Findlater, unknown location: designs for lodges in the classical and castle styles for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, c.1781-83, unexecuted (16)
    - Alternative design for a classical lodge, c.1781, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/66

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for a lodge, c.1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Lower: principal elevation of a single-storey, seven-bay lodge over a half-sunk basement, with an attic floor and pitched roof. The central bay is raised with a broken-bed pediment and has a Venetian opening with external stairs and a segmental window above Upper: rear elevation of a two-storey, nine-bay lodge with a central three-bay bow with a conical roof. The rest of the elevation is adorned with alternating square-headed windows as well as oculi and blind oculi

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another Design for a Lodge for the Earl of Findlater / Principal Front / Back Front / (verso) no 1

Signed and dated

c.1781
datable to c.1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double-ruled border on laid paper (333x466)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN / W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 54
King, 2001, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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