[18] Finished drawing 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 39/75

Purpose

[18] Finished drawing for the fourth scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a one-storey, three-bay, domed, square chapel with an oculus skylight in the dome, and small wings to either side. There is a central arched door within a portico of paired Doric columns supporting a pediment, and flanked on either side by sculpture-filled niches. The whole is ornamented with a Doric frieze

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Mausoleum & Chapple for Bowood Park in Wiltshire / proposed to be Built by the Right Honourable the Countess of Shelburne and dimensions given (verso) 1 / Lady Shelburne's Sarcofious (sic) / Mausoleum as executed

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (473 x 594)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
Beard, 1978, p. 40
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 326
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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