[11] Design for the great room, 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
      - Design for the great room, 1763, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/68

Purpose

[11] Design for the great room, 1763, as executed

Aspect

Laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room with a coved ceiling, and with a four-bay window wall, with a single oval pier glass, and ornamental curtain cornices, with two doors, picture frames and grotesque panels on the wall opposite, and chimneypieces flanked by doors on the side walls, and ornamented with picture frames and grotesque panels. The cove of the ceiling on one side wall is ornamented with octagonal coffering, and on another is annotated in pencil with arabesques and medallions

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Section of a Room for the Earl of Shelburne at Bowood (in the hand of William Adam) and some dimensions in pencil

Signed and dated

1763
datable to 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (917 x 661)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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