[2] Preliminary design for alterations to the entrance (south) front of the original house, c1761-63, partly executed

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  - Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire: designs for the house, offices and park buildings, for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1761-71 (32)
    - Designs for the house and offices
      - Preliminary design for alterations to the entrance (south) front of the original house, c1761-63, partly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/79

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for alterations to the entrance (south) front of the original house, c1761-63, partly executed

Aspect

Rough elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay house, with the central seven bays recessed, and behind a Doric colonnade across the ground and first storeys, surmounted by a lintel ornamented with a Doric frieze, and a pediment across the central three bays, and behind are the windows of the second storey, and the end bays are projecting, with balustraded hipped roofs, and with a Venetian window within a relieving arch on the ground storey

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1761-1763
date range: 1761-63

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (161 x 91)

Hand

Robert 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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