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[5] Design for the Diocletian wing, 1769, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 39/72
Purpose
[5] Design for the Diocletian wing, 1769, executed with alterations
Aspect
Elevation of the east front of the Diocletian wing, and link to the older house, being a two-storey, seven-bay range with a pitched roof between two three-storey, three-bay, pyramidal pavilions, with pediments on the third floor, and a Venetian window flanked by niches on the ground floor. On the left is a two-storey, five-bay, balustraded link with a domed bow across the central three bays, connected to a one-storey, single-bay room containing a staircase [to the older house]
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Offices at Bowood for The Earl of Shelburne (in the hand of William Adam) / Offices at Bowood for The Earl of Shelburne (in feint pencil) / 75 (in pencil) and some rough calculations in the bottom left-hand corner (verso) 1 / Bowood Offices (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1769
datable to 1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown pen and pencil on laid paper (786 x 380)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and IHS IVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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