[9] Design showing a plan of the second scheme for the house, 1776, unexecuted

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  - Schaw Park, Sauchie, Clackmannanshire: unexecuted designs for a house, mausoleum and carriage panels for Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart, 1775-76 (16)
    - Designs for the second scheme for the house, 1776, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/96

Purpose

[9] Design showing a plan of the second scheme for the house, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the house and domestic offices, showing a twelve- by three-bay rectangular principal block, with three-bay canted bows in the end bays on the north and south fronts, and with the central two bays on the north front slightly recessed, and with a three-bay bow in the left-hand side elevation, and with a rectangular range attached to the right-hand side front of the principal block, beyond a rectangular projection or loggia, and beyond this is a V-shaped range, containing rooms and stables, and enclosed into a triangle by a boundary wall, with a central conservatory built against the external side, and beyond this range is a large rectangular court containing various rooms, stables, and a formal garden(?)

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the House & Offices at Shaw park. the Seat of the Right Honorable Lord Cathcart (the Seat of the Honorable Lord Cathcart in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Powder room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Gentlemans Dressing room / Servant / Powder room / Bed Chamber / Ladys Dressing room (verso) 5 / Lord Cathcart / Shaw Park

Signed and dated

24/02/1776
Adelphi Febry 24t. 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (922 x 449)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam, with addition to the title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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