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[9] Alternative design for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, executed in part
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 19/78a
Purpose
[9] Alternative design for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, executed in part
Aspect
Upper: Elevation of a two-storey circular mausoleum flanked by single-storey walls with coping and sphinxes above. The mausoleum contains a pedimented portico with Doric columns and a tablet bearing the name ‘David Hume’ with a fluted frieze. Above is a circular tower with a central niche containing an urn, and above a continuous dentilled cornice and frieze with triglyphs and roundels
Lower: Plan of a circular mausoleum with flanking walls and a curved screen
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
This was the one / most approved / 72 / (in pencil in a curatorial hand) NEW[sic] CALTON BURIAL GROUND EDINBURGH
Signed and dated
- 02/1777
Feby 1777 (in pencil)
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, and wash on laid paper (622x437)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 11
King, 2001, Vol .1, p. 359; Vol. 2, p. 265
Brown, 1991, p. 401
Further literature references in scheme notes
King, 2001, Vol .1, p. 359; Vol. 2, p. 265
Brown, 1991, p. 401
Further literature references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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