[2] Design for the library, 1767, unexecuted

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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)
    - Designs for the library, staircase, hall and vestibule for the 6th Earl of Findlater, 1767, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/51

Purpose

[2] Design for the library, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and wall elevations of a long, quadrangular library with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. There are columns separating the room into three spaces, and walls lined with bookcases with Tuscan columns flanking windows, chimneypieces and panelled doors. Above the chimneypiece is a relief panel containing a scene with figures and there is a continuous moulded cornice and dado rail

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of the Library at Cullen House One of the Seats of the Rt. Hon.^ble The Earl of Findlater (underwritten in pencil) / (verso) (in pencil) Copy a part of this

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (907x530)

Hand

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

Watermark

D & C BLAUW with a cartouche surmounted by a fleur de lis

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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