[54] 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 21/7

Purpose

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

Aspect

Sketched perspective of a group of castle style buildings set within a wooded, cliffside landscape. The main building is three storeys tall with a large round range to the north. Adjacent is the stable block with a central tower, and round turrets. Across the elevations are a mixture of square-headed, arched, cross, slit windows and oculi as well as crenelations, machicolated cornices, string coursing and bartizans

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

1 Collean

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (387x251)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Fleur de lis [in part]

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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