[11] Finished drawing for the third scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Monuments and mausolea
  - Bowood Mausoleum, Calne, Wiltshire: mausoleum and monument to John Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne, commissioned by Mary Fitzmaurice, Countess of Shelburne, 1761, executed (23)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for the third scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 28/52

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for the third scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, domed, circular building within an Ionic closed colonnade, and resting on a square, rusticated basement of three bays. There is a central Doric aedicular door, flanked by niches, and ornamented with a band of festoons and ox skulls; and with further doors, niches and rectangular panels behind the colonnade. Figurative sculptures crown the colonnade, and the upper register has oculus windows and a frieze of anthemia and strigils beneath the dome

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Mausoleum proposed to be Built at Bowood Park in Wiltshire by / The Right Honble The Countess of Shelburne / Being a Second Elevation for the plan / Marked C and some measurements given (verso) 1

Signed and dated

1761
Robt Adam Architect 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (478 x 636)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, and with inscriptions in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

In Pursuit of Antiquity: Drawings by the Giants of British Neo-Classicism, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1 February - 1 June 2008; Tchoban Foundation Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, 3 October 2015 - 14 February 2016

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