Blair Castle, walled garden. View of sundial with figure of Time by John Cheere 1743. Digital image of PT 4424.

Description Blair Castle, walled garden. View of sundial with figure of Time by John Cheere 1743. Digital image of PT 4424.

Date 1973

Catalogue Number SC 763916

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 4424

Scope and Content Sundial, Blair Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a lead sculpture representing 'Time', depicted as a bearded old man with wings (signifying how 'time flies') and holding a brass sundial. The dial is inscribed 'Geo Adams at Tycho Brahe's head in Fleet St. London 1743' (the name and address of the dial maker), and the sculpture was made by John Cheere (d. 1787) of the Hyde Park yards, London. This sculpture was set up in the kitchen garden on the 4th July 1743. On the original order from John Cheere it is described as: 'a Time for a dial and marbles...and a fine Brass dial for the Latetude of Blair Castle made by Mr. Addams fleet street'. It was moved next to the Garden Loch in 1867, and placed in the Castle garden in 1872. Blair Castle, the seat of the Dukes of Atholl, was begun in 1269, extended in the 15th and 16th centuries, and remodelled to resemble a Georgian mansion by architect James Winter in the mid-1700s. The south-east wing was built in 1743-5, and rebuilt to include a clock-tower to designs by architect Archibald Elliot in 1814 after a fire. The castle was 're-baronialised' to designs by architect David Bryce in 1869-71, who also designed the ballroom (1826-7). It was modified again in 1886 (J C Walker), 1904-5 (J McIntyre Henry) and 1920-1 (Sir Robert Lorimer). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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