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  • image SM Adam volume 36/46

Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/46

Purpose

[16] Finished drawing for a castle-style lodge, 1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, three-bay, cross-stepped gabled lodge with flanking single-bay wings, all over a basement. There is a ramped entrance to the central opening with a fanlight above, flanked by square-headed windows, followed by Venetian windows in the flanking wings. Across the entire elevation are hood mouldings, string coursing, crenellations, corbelled cornices and corbelled bartizans with pepper-pot roofs

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) 2d Design of a Lodge in the Castle Stile for the Earl of Findlater / (in a different hand) 15

Signed and dated

  • 21/8/1783
    Adelphi / August 21d 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (575x474)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 54
King, 2001, p. 165
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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