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  • image SM Adam volume 21/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/19

Purpose

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

Aspect

Similar to SM Adam 19/77a, 76a and 84a but with a shorter tower drum with windows in recessed arches and a lower commemorative plaque. There is a faint plan of the mausoleum in pencil below

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1777
    datable to 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (242x315)

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. 399
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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