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

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

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/79

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a cove. The central flat is ornamented with a grid pattern of paterae and fans enclosed within ovals, and with rosettes enclosed within lozenges in between, and ornamented with rinceaux in the ground. The cove is ornamented with anthemia, urns, masks, and rinceaux in the corners, and rosettes and fans enclosed within circles and lozenges along the sides

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Great room at Bowood / Practically as executed (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)

Signed and dated

1763
1763 / 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (465 x 349)

Hand

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

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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