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  • image SM Adam volume 19/77a

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/77a

Purpose

[4] Alternative design for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Elevation of a two-storey, mausoleum flanked by single-storey walls with coping. The ground floor has a central octagonal drum and contains an entrance within a moulded architrave with a tablet above bearing the name ‘David Hume’. Above is a circular tower with arched windows within niches, and a continuous dentilled cornice above Lower: Plan of an octagonal mausoleum with flanking walls and a curved screen. The plan shows part of the ground floor with a circular interior, and part of the upper circular tower with windows in niches

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

70

Signed and dated

  • 02/1777
    Feby 1777 (in pencil)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a double-ruled border on laid paper (627x439)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 11
King, 2001, Vol .1, p. 359; Vol. 2, p. 265
Brown, 1991, pp. 399-401
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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