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The Adam office made a design for a castle gate and lodge for James Drummond at Drummond Castle. The design is not dated, however, Drummond did not have the Drummond Estate restored to him until 1785, therefore it is most probable that this design was made after that date. There is an additional miniature watercolour of the same design within the Blair Adam Collection. This design does not appear to have been executed. There are a pair of screen walls with a gate on the estate which date to c.1785, but the design and craftsmanship suggests that these are not an Adam design.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Volume II, Index, 1922, pp. 9, 69; A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: Drawings and Imagination, 1993, pp. 155-7; C. Mosley (ed.), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 2003, p. 3103
Louisa Catt, 2024
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).