[1] Record drawing for an entrance screen and gates, 1767, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Cullen House, Moray: designs for the interior decoration of Cullen House and an entrance screen for James Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Findlater and 3rd Earl of Seafield, and designs for a chimney piece and furniture for the drawing room at Cullen House, along with a tea pavilion, town house or gardener’s house, and a gated lodge for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1767-83, executed in part (26)
    - Design for an entrance screen for the 6th Earl of Findlater, 1767, executed to a variant design (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/68

Purpose

[1] Record drawing for an entrance screen and gates, 1767, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Principal elevation of an entrance screen with central gates housed within a pedimented surround with Ionic columns and trophies. The gates are flanked by screens with panelled doors in consoled surrounds and terminate in pavilions with multi-paned windows and pyramidal roofs. There is a continuous moulded cornice and there are also pedestals surmounted by lamps

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Gateway for Cullen House / Facing the Great Road

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (470x242)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or William Hamilton, J. P. Laurent or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

D & C BLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
King, 2001, p. 330
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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