[5] Preliminary design for the second scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted

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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 design and finished drawings for the second scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/92

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for the second scheme for the mausoleum, 1761, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a single-storey, three-bay building, with a pyramidal roof, and with a central door, surmounted by a Diocletian window, and within a rusticated relieving arch, and flanked by projecting end bays, articulated by engaged Doric columns and containing rusticated sculpture-filled niches. With a Doric frieze, and an attic ornamented with an inscription panel, masks and festoons. The plan shows a T-shaped arrangement of catacombs (verso) a rough plan and profile of the building shown on the recto

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

some measurements given

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (178 x 267)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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