[16] Design for the fourth scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, as executed

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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 designs, designs and finished drawings for the fourth scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, as executed (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/80

Purpose

[16] Design for the fourth scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a chapel (to be located above the mausoleum) in the shape of a Greek cross, with a door in one transept, behind a portico of paired columns. Internally, each transept is screened by two columns. Externally the transepts are ornamented with pilasters, and the corners are ornamented with niches both internally and externally

Scale

1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Chapple of the Countess of Shelburne / at Bowood (in the hand of William Adam) and dimensions and rough calculations given (verso) 1

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (464 x 514)

Hand

Robert Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
Beard, 1978, p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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