[55] Design for a section through a castle-style building, 1787, 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)
    - Designs for additions to Culzean Castle, 1787, as executed (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/4

Purpose

[55] Design for a section through a castle-style building, 1787, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a castle-style building comprising a central three-storey grand staircase lit by a roof light and supported by piers, followed by columns of the Doric and Ionic orders on each floor consecutively, and flanked by three-storey wings with pitched roofs and round, crenelated turrets

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through Cullean Castle (and in the hand of William Adam) for the Earl of Hyndsford / (verso) 4

Signed and dated

4/5/1787
4.^th May 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink and lemon yellow wash on laid paper (470x294)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

This drawing is incorrectly inscribed ‘for the Earl of Hyndsford’. The Adam office made designs for the Earl of Hyndford at his estate in Mauldslie but they do not relate to this section drawing. The first-floor Doric capitals were replaced with Corinthian capitals when executed and are thought to have been constructed after Adam’s death, as they lack Adam’s standard of craftsmanship.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
Harris, 2002, pp. 322-327
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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