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[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
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
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.
Harris, 2002, pp. 322-327
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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