Statue and plinth (no.33 on plan), view from South. Digital image of D 59598 CN.
SC 757605
Description Statue and plinth (no.33 on plan), view from South. Digital image of D 59598 CN.
Date 1/4/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 757605
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 59598 CN
Scope and Content Statue and plinth from south, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a white marble Classical-style statue of a lady in elegant draped robes which dates from the late 18th/early 19th centuries. She holds part of her dress in her hand, and is shown with her head covered, a sign that she is married. The sculpture stands on a tall plinth and is framed by an arrangement of symmetrical topiary. 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 French 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 the Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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