[33] Design for a group of buildings, 1787, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kirkdale House, Galloway: variant designs for a house, stables, offices, farm range, brewhouse, bridge and cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet, 1786-88, executed in part (43)
    - Variant designs for stables and offices, 1786-87, unexecuted (14)
      - Variant designs for a stables and offices, 1787, unexecuted (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/44

Purpose

[33] Design for a group of buildings, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a gatehouse, same as SM Adam volume 21/144, with an adjoining single-storey wall, single-storey block, and a section of a two-storey circular stable block with a conical roof with a rooflight. The stables have a central, circular, two-storey arcaded gallery, and the ground floor is divided into stalls by curved partitions. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Offices for Sir Samuel Hannay Bart at Kirkdale in Galloway ~ / 75 / (verso) no 1

Signed and dated

31/3/1787
Albemarle Street / 31.^st March 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow on laid paper (481x238)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Notes

The section in this drawing appears to be a paired-back version of an earlier variant design shown in SM Adam volume 35/47.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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