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James Playfair, CAIRNESS HOUSE (Aberdeenshire): Alternative designs for a new house for Charles Gordon, 1790-93: Design for house with rectangular courtyard, Basement floor plan, s & d: J. Playfair. Jan
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78/3/3
Purpose
James Playfair, CAIRNESS HOUSE (Aberdeenshire): Alternative designs for a new house for Charles Gordon, 1790-93: Design for house with rectangular courtyard, Basement floor plan, s & d: J. Playfair. Jan
Inscribed
J. Playfair. Jan
Hand
James Playfair (1755 - 1794)
Notes
Charles Gordon (1749-96) of Buthlaw and Cairness was an absentee plantation owner. He purchased the Georgia estate of Trelawny, Jamaica in c.1778, subsequently visiting occassionally. He built Cairness House reportedly using the profits from the Georgia estate and the enslaved people on it.
Literature: Legacies of British Slavery database, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
Literature: Legacies of British Slavery database, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
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Drawing
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