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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/182

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for additions to a building in the castle-style, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan (in part) and elevation of additions to an existing building in the castle style. The whole building comprises part of an old quadrangular building with a new range at one end, with corner circular towers. There is a central rotunda, containing a drawing room, flanked by two apsidal-ended rooms with corner circular turrets, followed by double-apsidal rooms containing a library and drawing room with central bows. The elevation is adorned with a mixture of arched and square-headed windows, some within relieving arches, as well as oculi, string coursing, crenelations and machicolated cornices

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Willm McDowall Esqr / Old House / Powd / room / Water / Closet / Stairs / Library / Privy / Anti / - / room / Drawg room / Eating room / Butlers / Pantry / Plate with some room dimensions, and some calculations in pencil

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (316x199)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

T FRENCH

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
King, 2001, p. 161
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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