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[6] Design for the hall c1761, executed with minor alterations
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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