[1] Sketch of a group of buildings, c.1776

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Culzean Castle, Ayrshire: designs for additions to a castle-style building and its stables and walled gardens, along with a home farm, viaduct, and interior decoration and furniture for David Kennedy, 10th Earl of Cassilis, c.1776-87, executed in part (57)
    - Sketch of Culzean Castle, c.1776 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/6

Purpose

[1] Sketch of a group of buildings, c.1776

Aspect

Elevation of a group of buildings set within a rugged, cliff-top landscape. There is a four-storey building with a gable end and chimney stacks bound by a series of single and two-storey ranges with pitched roofs and gable ends

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(In pencil) 4 Cullean

Signed and dated

c.1776
datable to c.1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (439x285)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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