[5] Record drawing for a vestibule, 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 36/54

Purpose

[5] Record drawing for a vestibule, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and wall elevations of a vestibule with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The walls are adorned with panelling, a dado rail and cornice with waterleaf and egg and dart moulding, with bottle-neck balustrading on one side and segments containing festoons at either end of the room

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of the Vestible at Cullen House one of the Seats / of The Right Hon^ble The Earl of Findlater / (verso)These Plans go no 10 into the Book

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (612x507)

Hand

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

Watermark

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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