A George III door surround (the door is later). Designed by John Adam for Douglas Castle. Ca. 1757.

A George III door surround. Designed by John Adam for Douglas Castle in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Ca. 1757. Installed on the west wall of the first floor back room. Surround: 9’ 8” x 6’; door (later): 8’ x 4’. Archibald Douglas (1694–1761) was created first Duke of Douglas by Queen Anne in 1703. Douglas killed his bastard cousin John Kerr at Douglas Castle in 1725 while Kerr made suit for the Duke’s sister. The castle burnt down in 1755, and in 1757 the Duke commissioned the Adam brothers — John, Robert and James — to rebuild the castle such that, had it been completed, it would have been the largest in Scotland. John Adam (1721–1792), the eldest of the brothers, had recently returned from his Grand Tour, and so his designs were suffused with Continental elements. In the present door surround this is particularly clear in the frieze, with its distinctly French scrollwork surrounding a basket of wheat, flowers and fruit. Adam’s neoclassicism, however, remains on full display. Volute corbel