[13] Design showing an elevation and axial section for a mausoleum, 1776, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 a mausoleum, 1776, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/100

Purpose

[13] Design showing an elevation and axial section for a mausoleum, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation and axial section of a mausoleum as Adam volume 29/101, showing a single-storey, three-bay rusticated principal front, with the central bay projecting, pedimented, and containing an arched entrance door, flanked by bays with slit windows, and the section shows that the central portion of the catacombs is surmounted by a barrel vault

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section across the Catacombs / Front of a Mausoleum for Lord Cathcart and some measurements given

Signed and dated

16/07/1776
Adelphi July 16t. 1776.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (380 x 517)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 225
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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