[9] Alternative design for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, executed in part

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  - Hume Mausoleum, Edinburgh: designs for a mausoleum to David Hume, 1777, executed in part [10]
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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

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

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