[20] Preliminary design for the fourth scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, as executed

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- 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 21/77

Purpose

[20] Preliminary design for the fourth scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Rough cross section of a two-storey, domed, building, with vaulted catacombs with a central pier, within the rusticated basement, surmounted by a circular, domed chapel, with windows and niches in the interior walls, and a coffered dome, and enclosed within a monopteral portico of Ionic columns

Scale

to a rough scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

some measurements given

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (193 x 266)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004

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