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- Monuments and mausolea
  - Westminster Abbey, London: Monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, commissioned by Viscountess Townshend, 1760, executed (13)

Designs for ornamental panels on the sides of the sarcophagus on the funerary monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, 1760, as executed (2)

These panels can be seen roughly drawn in two of Adam's elevations for the monument (Adam volumes 54/2/8 and 54/2/27), and clearly in another two elevations (Adam volumes 19/9-10). They are as executed, and remain in situ on the monument.

The portrait medallions show King George II in Adam volume 19/70, and the prince (later George III) in Adam volume 19/68. George III succeeded his father in October 1760 meaning that this monument design must be dated before the month of October.

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Westminster Abbey, London: Monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, commissioned by Viscountess Townshend, 1760, executed (13)

[12] Design for ornamental panels on the sides of the sarcophagus on the funerary monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, 1760, as executed

Westminster Abbey, London: Monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, commissioned by Viscountess Townshend, 1760, executed (13)

[13] Design for ornamental panels on the sides of the sarcophagus on the funerary monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, 1760, as executed

datable to 1760

Agostino Brunias

SM Adam volume 19/70

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