[14] Record copy for a chimney piece for the second-floor southeast dressing room, 1778, possibly 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)
    - Designs, finished drawings and record drawings for the interior of Culzean castle, 1778-82, as executed (34)
      - Designs and record drawings for chimneypieces in the principal rooms, 1778, as executed (16)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/118

Purpose

[14] Record copy for a chimney piece for the second-floor southeast dressing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimney piece comprising moulded stiles, with a central panel containing festoons, flanked by enclosed rosettes, with a moulded cornice and mantel

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Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the South East Dressing room two pair Story / at Culean Castle / (in pencil) Ba[_ _] [_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ ] / Rear [_ _ _ _ _ _] / (in pen) 118

Signed and dated

1778
1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (405x291)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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