[2] Preliminary design for a group of farm buildings, c.1777-88, as executed

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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)
    - Preliminary design for a group of farm buildings, c.1777-88, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/70

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a group of farm buildings, c.1777-88, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a central tower with a tall archway flanked by single-bay blocks and round turrets, flanked by single-storey links terminating in long blocks with pitched roofs and stepped gable ends with corner bartizans

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

c.1777-88
datable to c.1777-88

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (295x113)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

LV surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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