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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/60

Purpose

[2] Design for a monument, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a pedestal surmounted by an urn. The pedestal contains a central oval panel with a lion mask holding a festoon above. The panel contains the text ‘This pedestal was erected to the memory of Sir Charles Linneus by Professor John Hope in presence of the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh MDCCLXXVIII’. The urn is decorated with cabling and gadroon ornament

Scale

bar scale of ½ an inch to 10 feet

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    datable to 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (175x394)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p.11
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 363, 369
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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