[4] Design showing a part plan and elevation for the principal front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, 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)
    - Preliminary designs, designs and a finished drawing for the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/93

Purpose

[4] Design showing a part plan and elevation for the principal front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Part plan and elevation of the principal front of the house and domestic offices, as in Adam volume 29/94, but from a slightly different angle, showing a two-storey, crenellated principal block on a slope, with the lower storey only visible at one end, and with a canted projection at one end containing pointed arched windows, and with slit windows on the ground storey, surmounted by arched windows, and to the right-hand side of this block is a crenellated colonnade, connected to a two-storey crenellated tower, with slit windows, and in front there is a single-storey, colonnaded pavilion with two pediments, beyond which is the diagonally slanting front of the conservatory, which is crenellated and with alternating circular towers and colonnaded portions, and the central bay has a large two-storey arched window, and this range terminates in a two-storey, crenellated square tower with slit windows

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

South West Elevation of part of the House & Offices with the new Conservatory & Collonades at Shaw Park / The Seat of The Right Honble Lord Cathcart / Taken from the line A. B on the Plan (verso) 2 / Lord Cathcart

Signed and dated

08/07/1775
Adelphi July 8t. 1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper, and the central of the three affixed sheets has a double ruled border (841 x 374)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY / LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche / 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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