[51] Design for the east elevation of a castle-style building, 1787, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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 for additions to Culzean Castle, 1787, as executed (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/2

Purpose

[51] Design for the east elevation of a castle-style building, 1787, as executed

Aspect

East flank elevation of a three-storey, castle-style building with corner turrets, with a taller range to the rear, and an additional wing at one end with a two-storey circular block to the front with a conical roof, and a larger three-storey circular block at one end with a conical roof. The entire elevation is adorned with a mixture of square-headed, arched and cross windows and oculi, as well as machicolated cornices, crenelations, string coursing, balustrading and bartizans

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

East front of Cullean Castle with the additional Building & Circular room proposed to be built towards the Sea. / (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) for The Right Hon^ble The Earl of Cassilles / (verso) 2

Signed and dated

1787
datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (551x465)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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