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  • image SM Adam volume 21/187

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/187

Purpose

[10] Variant design for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Recto: Variation of SM Adam 19/78a but with a taller drum containing an additional cornice and small arched windows on the upper storey Verso: measured lines in pencil

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1777
    datable to 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (200x320)

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

Level

Drawing

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