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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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 36/31

Purpose

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

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a three-storey building over a half-sunk basement with some vaulted rooms. At one end is a circular turret and at the other end is a four-storey drum tower with an external ground-floor, balustraded arcade. 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 West to the South East Marks C. D on the plan with some dimensions / (verso) no 6

Signed and dated

1789
Albemarle Street / datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow (480x286)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

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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