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- 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

Finished drawing and alternative record drawing for the ceiling for the great room at Bowood, 1763, drawing 13 as executed (2)

Adam volume 11/79 is the executed version of Adam's ceiling for the great room. Sadly, this ceiling was not removed to Lloyds in the 1950s, and was lost in the demolition. There is a reduced version of this drawing at the V&A.

The circular coffering of the executed ceiling design was taken from Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra (1753).

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Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire: designs for the house, offices and park buildings, for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1761-71 (32)

[12] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the great room at Bowood, 1763

Robt Adam Architect 1763 / June 1763

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

SM Adam volume 11/78

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Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire: designs for the house, offices and park buildings, for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1761-71 (32)

[13] Alternative record drawing for the ceiling for the great room at Bowood, 1763, as executed

1763 / 1763

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, Agostino Scara or Benedetto Napoletano

SM Adam volume 11/79

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