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  • image SM Adam volume 39/70

Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/70

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for the staircase, c1763

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular, two-storey stairwell with a domed skylight ornamented with a band of festoons, and an imperial staircase. The walls are ornamented with doors, arched entrances, picture frames, and a frieze of laurel leaves bound by ribbon. With an additional plan of the ceiling - with its domed skylight - in the top left-hand corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Staircase at Bowood for the / Earl of Shelburne (in the hand of William Adam) / 73 (in pencil) / Great Staircase at Bowood (in pencil) and some measurements given (verso) 3 / Ld Shelburne / Staircase at Bowood

Signed and dated

  • c1763
    datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (777 x 647)

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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