[7] Finished drawing for one wall, 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 39/71

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for one wall, c1761, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay wall, the lower register containing a door flanked by sculpture-filled niches, which are screened by paired Doric columns surmounted by a Doric frieze and Diocletian opening containing a reclining sculpture in the upper register, surmounted by festoons, and flanked by doors leading to segmental balustraded balconies supported by consoles

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

For the Earl of Shelburne at Bowood (in the hand of William Adam) / 74 (in pencil) (verso) Ld Shelburne / Bowood Side of a room / 19 (in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1761
datable to c1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (352 x 463)

Hand

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

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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