[19] Preliminary design for a banqueting room, c.1783, 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)
    - Preliminary drawings and designs for a banqueting house for the 7th Earl of Findlater, 1783, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/60

Purpose

[19] Preliminary design for a banqueting room, c.1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a single storey banqueting room, with a central drum tower with a conical roof, over a basement. The banqueting room comprises a rear circular tearoom with niches, chimneypieces, and a balustraded bow, flanked by a staircase and butler’s storeroom with a corridor across the front. The principal elevation is rusticated and comprises a square-headed opening within a voussoired-arch flanked by windows. The flanking wings have pitched roofs with cupolas at the corner. There is a mixture of enclosed rosettes, medallions, fluted friezes, dentilled cornices, and urn-filled niches and segmental arches across the elevation

Scale

to a scale of 1/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Design for a Banqueting Room / (in a different hand) Earl of Findlater at Cullen ~ / Butlers / store / room / Tea Room / Lobby / Stairs to / Kitchen / 50 feet in front with some dimensions

Signed and dated

c.1783
datable to c.1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (509x203)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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