Blair Castle, walled garden. View of statue of Autumn by John Cheere 1742. Digital image of PT 4419.

Description Blair Castle, walled garden. View of statue of Autumn by John Cheere 1742. Digital image of PT 4419.

Date 1973

Catalogue Number SC 767226

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 4419

Scope and Content Statue of 'Autumn', Walled Garden, Blair Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a marble sculpture representing 'Autumn', depicted as a woman in Classical dress holding a sheaf of corn. The figure is set within a roughly arch-shaped niche in the walled garden. The piece is one of four figures by sculptor John Cheere (1709-87) representing the Four Seasons which date from 1742. John Cheere had a shop in London with a yard filled with lead, hardened plaster and marble statuary from which clients like James, 2nd Duke of Atholl could choose such sculptures as: 'Bustos of Poets', 'Ye four Seasons', 'two dogs in metal painted like life' or a 'Hay makeing Man'. Many of these survive today in the castle gardens. 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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