[22] 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 1/220

Purpose

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

Aspect

Lower: principal elevation of a single-storey banqueting room, same as SM Adam volume 36/60 with the omission of the central drum tower and addition of a pediment Upper: rear elevation of a single-storey banqueting room with a central drum tower with a conical roof, over a half-sunk basement. The elevation is rusticated and adorned with square-headed windows, urn-filled segmental-arches, a continuous frieze, and a balustrade to the central bow

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

c.1783
datable to c.1783

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (225x393)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a cartouche with a fleur de lis above

Literature

King, 2001, p. 217
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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