[35] Record drawing for friezes, ND, 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)
    - Designs, finished drawings and record drawings for the interior of Culzean castle, 1778-82, as executed (34)
      - Record drawings for friezes, ND, as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/35

Purpose

[35] Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of frieze designs for the dressing room, ante room, first drawing room, second drawing room, and bed chamber. These include: a pedestal adorned with rams heads and an enclosed rosette flanked by swags terminating in enclosed rosettes; scrolled foliage surmounted by alternating palmette and calyx; a central lambrequin flanked by griffons followed by urns on pedestals; urns surmounted by foliage enclosed by olive leaf arches terminating in calyx pairs; and a lambrequin surmounted by a poppy flanked by scrollwork terminating in poppies

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

(All underwritten in pencil) Dressing room / Ante room / 1.^st Drawing room / 2.^d Drawing room / Bed Chamber / (in pencil) Front Drawing / Room Jo. Sides / of the Square / 2 C[_ _ _ _] House / 7 ½ high / 35 / 35

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292x469)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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