[22] Design for an elevation and section of the kitchen offices, c.1789, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Findlater Castle, Moray: designs for a castle, stables and offices, gates and a bridge for James Ogilvy 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1789, unexecuted (26)
    - Designs for a circular kitchen court and offices, c.1789, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/76

Purpose

[22] Design for an elevation and section of the kitchen offices, c.1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation and part-section of a group of two-storey kitchen offices with single-storey arcaded links. The elevation is adorned with square-headed windows, string coursing, a machicolated cornice and corner bartizans

Scale

to a scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section from East to West through the Kitchen Court (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

c.1789
datable to c.1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (225x151)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche [in part]

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 13
King, 2001, p. 244
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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