[12] Design for a section through a castle-style building, 1789, unexecuted

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  - Findlater Castle, Moray: designs for a castle, stables and offices, gates and a bridge for James Ogilvy 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1789, unexecuted (26)
    - Designs for a castle-style building, 1789, unexecuted (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/30

Purpose

[12] Design for a section through a castle-style building, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section through a three-storey house over a half-sunk, vaulted basement with a porte-cochere at one end and a circular turret at the other. In the centre of the house is a three-storey, roof-lit, principal staircase and gallery with Doric piers, Corinthian columns and Ionic columns on each floor respectively. The different coloured washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of Findlater Castle from the North East to the South West with some dimensions / (verso) no 5

Signed and dated

14/8/1789
Albemarle Street / 14.^t^h August 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow (476x276)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 13
King, 2001, p. 162
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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