[38] Design for a castle-style building and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design

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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 designs for a group of castle-style buildings and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/31

Purpose

[38] Design for a castle-style building and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a castle-style building with walled terraces in the foreground, set within a wooded landscape, similar to SM Adam volume 1/32, with some minor variations. The relieving arches around the first and ground-floor tripartite windows in the flanking wings of the castle-style house have been omitted, and there is only a single bay of slit windows in the turrets. The walled terraces are also different, with crenelations to both the walls and end towers, with plain moulded cornices

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

c.1779-82
datable to c.1779-82

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (490x351)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, pp. 8-9
King, 2001, pp. 330-3
Moss, 2002, pp. 70-71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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