[20] Design for the half-sunk basement of a banqueting room, 1783, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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 36/64

Purpose

[20] Design for the half-sunk basement of a banqueting room, 1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Basement plan of a banqueting room comprising a circular kitchen housed within a rear bow, with a chimneypiece and two niches, flanked by a scullery and larder, with a staircase and wine cellar connected by a lobby to the front

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Sunk Story of the Building for a Banqueting room / (in the hand of William Adam) for the Earl of Findlater / (in a different hand) Scullery / wine Cellar / Kitchen / Lobby / Larder with some room dimensions / (verso) no 4

Signed and dated

12/9/1783
Adelphi / 12^th Sep.^r 1783.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (466x283)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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