[52] Design for a group of castle-style buildings, c.1787, 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 for additions to Culzean Castle, 1787, as executed (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/8

Purpose

[52] Design for a group of castle-style buildings, c.1787, as executed

Aspect

Sketched perspective of a group of castle-style buildings from the southwest set within a wooded, cliffside landscape. The main building is four storeys tall with three-storey flanking wings with corner turrets with a circular range to the rear, and a two-storey range to one side with a circular block with a conical roof to the rear. The entire elevation is adorned with square-headed, arched, tripartite, cross and slit windows, and oculi as well as machicolated cornices, crenelations, string coursing and bartizans. To the right is the top of a crenelated tower flanked by turrets

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

4 Collean

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (384x248)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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