[26] Design for a gateway and lodge, 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)
    - Designs for a gateway and lodge for the 7th Earl of Findlater, 1783, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/69

Purpose

[26] Design for a gateway and lodge, 1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of an arched single-storey gateway with an adjoining screen wall with an opening, and a two-storey lodge over a basement, with a tiled pitched roof, and a ground-floor bow with a thatched roof. The arch and opening have hood mouldings and are topped with moulded coping, with a festoon above the central arch

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation & Section of the Gateway & Lodge for Cullen / (in the hand of William Adam) for the Earl of Findlater with some dimensions / (verso) no 2

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (600x310)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

LV surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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