[20] Design for an elevation 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 36/77

Purpose

[20] Design for an elevation of the kitchen offices, c.1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a group of two-storey kitchen offices with single-storey links. The central building has a central two-storey relieving arch with oculi. Across the elevation of the buildings are a mixture of square-headed windows, string coursing, machicolated cornices and corner corbelled bartizans

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North front of the Octagon Court of Kitchen Offices for Findlater Castle

Signed and dated

c.1789
datable to c.1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (265x158)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

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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