[5] Design for the principal floor of a building, 1789, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [5] Design for the principal floor of a building, 1789, unexecuted

Browse

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 castle-style building, 1789, unexecuted (13)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/34

Purpose

[5] Design for the principal floor of a building, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal (first) floor plan of a house with projecting corner turrets and a central rear bow forming an internal circular saloon, followed by a pair of oval staircases with a grand staircase opposite, flanked by a series of principal rooms including an eating room, billiard room, drawing room with double-apsidal ends, library, dressing rooms and bed chambers

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal or one pair Story of Findlater Castle / Drawing room / Library / Dress^g room / Bed Chamber / Anti room / Saloon / Back Stairs / Vestible / Back Stairs / Principal / Staircase / Bed Chamber / Pow^g / room / Dress^g room / Passage / Eating room / Anti room / Billiard room / Lady's / Dress^g room / Bed Chamber / Gentlemans / Dress^g room / A / B / C / D with some room dimensions / (verso) no 9

Signed and dated

1789
datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (487x295)

Hand

Probably
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

The grand staircase and circular saloon appears to have been directly lifted from Adam’s designs for Culzean Castle. This plan also includes a third eating room, the other two being located on the ground floor.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 13
King, 2001, p. 162
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk