Detail of statue of three cherubs, (no.1 on plan) from North. Digital image of D 59516 CN.

Description Detail of statue of three cherubs, (no.1 on plan) from North. Digital image of D 59516 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757572

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59516 CN

Scope and Content Statue of three cherubs and a dolphin from north, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a white marble sculpture depicting three cherubs riding on a stylised 'dolphin'. This creature is shown with a twisting, scaly body, very different from the real animal. It dates from the late 18th/early 19th century, when many pieces of Classical-style statuary were added to the formal gardens. Drummond Castle had well established gardens by the 17th century, but the present parterre was not laid out until the 1820s by Lewis Kennedy (estate factor and former gardener to the Empress Josephine) for Clementina Drummond and her husband 21st Baron Willoughby de Eresby. The garden was replanted by Phyllis Astor in the 1950s. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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