[57] Design for a section through a castle-style building, 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 37/3

Purpose

[57] Design for a section through a castle-style building, c.1787, as executed

Aspect

Axial section through a castle-style building, same as SM Adam volume 1/35, with the addition of chimneystacks to the roof line. The different coloured washes denote the building materials

Scale

to a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section across Cullean Castle / (in the hand of William Adam) from North to South / (in a curator’s hand, in pencil) See Vol 1. 35 / Duplicate into R. A. pencil

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink and lemon yellow wash on laid paper (469x231)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Notes

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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