[6] Design for the hall c1761, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire: designs for the house, offices and park buildings, for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1761-71 (32)
    - Designs for the interior
      - Design for the hall, and finished drawing for one wall, c1761, executed with minor alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/69

Purpose

[6] Design for the hall c1761, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations of a rectangular room with one end screened. With a compartmental ceiling with a central circular saucer dome, and with a three-bay window wall, a Doric screen of columns, flanked by niches, and surmounted by a Dioceltian opening with a soffit ornamented with octagonal coffering on the wall opposite, and doors, niches and a chimneypiece on the side walls. The walls are ornamented with a Doric frieze and picture frames, and there are small segmental balustraded balconies at the screened end. With ornamental pencil annotations, and a door in the top left-hand corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Section of a Room for the / Earl of Shelburne at Bowood (in the hand of William Adam) and some measurements given (verso) 2 / Ld Shelburne / Section of Room at Bowood

Signed and dated

c1761
datable to c1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (914 x 633)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam, with pencil annotations in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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