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  • image SM Adam volume 21/158

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/158

Purpose

Preliminary design for a funerary monument, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of a monument, with a pedestal containing a rectangular inscription panel, surmounted by a series of busts and urns contained within niches, surmounted by pediments or acroteria, and with three small inscription panels (suggesting that this monument was designed for more than one person), and the whole is surmounted by a flaming urn, and set within a trefoil arch

Scale

not to scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (184x272)

Hand

Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792) - Collections

Level

Drawing

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