[26] Design for the staircase ceiling, 1780, 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 for the staircase ceiling, 1780, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/64

Purpose

[26] Design for the staircase ceiling, 1780, possibly executed

Aspect

Ceiling plan comprising an enclosed rosette set within a moulded border followed by a border of husks with bows and calyx drops, set within a square guilloche border

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Staircase at Cullean Castle (underwritten in pencil) / 64

Signed and dated

22/4/1780
22^d. Apr. 1780 / (in pencil) Adelphi / April 22^d. 80

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (305x330)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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