[21] Design for the principal floor of a banqueting room, 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 36/65

Purpose

[21] Design for the principal floor of a banqueting room, 1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal (ground) floor plan of a banqueting room, same as SM Adam volume 36/60, with the omission of the large staircase and addition of an octagonal closet, and a small staircase

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Scale

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

Inscribed

Principal Story of the Building for a Banqueting room / Butlers pantry / Tea room / Closet / Lobby with some dimensions / (verso) no 5 / These Plans go 12 into the Book / (in pencil) 2

Signed and dated

1783
Adelphi datable to 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (465x274)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a cartouche with a fleur de lis above

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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