[13] Design 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 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/56

Purpose

[13] Design for a lodge, c.1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation (in part) of a single-storey, five-bay lodge with flanking wings with front and side bows, all over a half-sunk basement. There is a portico over the central three bays over the lodge, with Tuscan columns, and a balustraded parapet at roof level to the lodge and ends of the flanking wings. The entire elevation is adorned with string coursing, square-headed windows with sills, and moulded cornices

Scale

to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Signed and dated

c.1781
datable to c.1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (396x226)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

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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