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Taymouth Castle, Kenmore, Perthshire: unexecuted designs for the interiors, for Lord Breadalbane, 1808 -1809 (17)
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Taymouth Castle, Kenmore, Perthshire: unexecuted designs for the interiors, for Lord Breadalbane, 1808 -1809 (17)
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The new Taymouth Castle was designed by Archibald Elliot (1761-1823) with his brother James Elliot (died 1810) from 1806 to 1810. Their work included extravagant interiors.
Soane had carried out some minor alteratiions to Lord Breadelbane's house in Park Lane in 1802-3. It is not clear why he was comissioned in 1808 to design the interiors at Taymouth Castle, in any case they were not executed and he had to wait ten years before being paid his fee of £105. (Information from Taymouth Castle file, Soane Museum). The Marquesses of Breadelbane had interests in an estate and enslaved people in in St Andrews, Jamaica.
Jill Lever
March 2017
Literature includes:
H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of Brtish architects1600-1840, 2008. p.351; Legacies of British Slavery database, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
Soane had carried out some minor alteratiions to Lord Breadelbane's house in Park Lane in 1802-3. It is not clear why he was comissioned in 1808 to design the interiors at Taymouth Castle, in any case they were not executed and he had to wait ten years before being paid his fee of £105. (Information from Taymouth Castle file, Soane Museum). The Marquesses of Breadelbane had interests in an estate and enslaved people in in St Andrews, Jamaica.
Jill Lever
March 2017
Literature includes:
H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of Brtish architects1600-1840, 2008. p.351; Legacies of British Slavery database, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
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Contents of Taymouth Castle, Kenmore, Perthshire: unexecuted designs for the interiors, for Lord Breadalbane, 1808 -1809 (17)
- [1] Survey plan of part of ground floor
- [2] Survey plan of part of ground floor to a lesser scale
- [3] Part elevatiion
- [4] Drawing room, design May 1808
- [5] Drawing room, perspective design 1808
- [6] Drawing room, as [4] 14 April 1809
- [7] Great dining room, design, May 1808
- [8] Great dining room, as [7] 12 April 1809
- [9] Dining room, design 31 May 1808
- [10] Dining room, as [9] not dated
- [11] Dining room, perspective design 17 June 1808
- [12] Dining room, as [11] 1808
- [13] Dining room, variant perspective design 1808
- [14] Music room, design 20 May 1808
- [15] Music room, as [14] no date
- [16] Music room, perspective design 1808
- [17] Breakfast room, perspective design 1808