[4] Record drawing for the hall, 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 36/53

Purpose

[4] Record drawing for the hall, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and wall elevation for a hall with a screen of Tuscan columns at one end and a central apse at the other with a chimneypiece, flanked by panels of scrolled hearts and niches containing statues. The walls are panelled and there is a continuous fluted frieze with lozenges and a cornice above

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

The Earl of Findlater / Section of the Hall at Cullen House / Passage to the Kitchen &c / Great Coal / Room &c / Door to the Great Stairs / Door to the office / (in pencil) The Earl of Findlater

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (722x563)

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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