[16] Design for a coach panel, 1775-76, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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)
    - Preliminary design and designs for coach panels, c1775-76, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/104

Purpose

[16] Design for a coach panel, 1775-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a triangular decorative coach panel, with one curving edge, ornamented with a central vesica-shaped panel, within a wreath of reed and ribbon, surrounded by calyx and arabesques enclosing rosettes, and supporting festoons and an anthemion, and with a border of alternating anthemia, and anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts, and with large calyx in the corners

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Lord Cathcarts Coach (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 3 / 23 (in pencil) / 3 / Lord Cathcart Coach / This to be placed Twenty Third (in red pen)

Signed and dated

1775-76
datable to 1775-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow, cerulean blue and pink on laid paper (550 x 380)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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