[4] Finished drawing for the first 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 design and finished drawings for the first scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/82

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for the first scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted

Aspect

Section from front to rear of a two-storey, circular, domed building, containing five layers of catacombs, with a pedimented loggia on the left with Ionic columns, pediments, and a window in the side wall

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Mausoleum Marked A. for / the Countess of Shelburne at Bowood [for the Countess of Shelburne at Bowood in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil] and measurements given (verso) 2 / 2

Signed and dated

1761
Robt Adam Architect 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and Naples yellow washes within a double ruled border on laid paper (466 x 584)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with inscriptions in the hand of Robert Adam, with addition to the title inscription in the hand of William 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

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