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  • image SM Adam volume 19/76

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/76

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Recto: same as SM Adam volume 19/77. The plan shows part of the upper circular tower with windows on the same axis as the niches Verso: pencil sketch of the monument on top of a hill

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

67 / (in pencil) 76

Signed and dated

  • 1777
    datable to 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and wash on laid paper within a double-ruled border (627x440)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 11
King, 2001, Vol .1, p. 359; Vol. 2, p. 265
Brown, 1991, pp. 397-8
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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