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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Monuments and mausolea
  - Hume Mausoleum, Edinburgh: designs for a mausoleum to David Hume, 1777, executed in part [10]
    - Alternative designs for a mausoleum for David Hume, 1777, unexecuted [5]

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/78

Purpose

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

Aspect

Variant of SM Adam volume 19/77a and 21/19 with a hexagonal structure and narrower drum with windows in recessed arches, with a plain moulded cornice

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

71 / (in pencil) 78 /(verso) Monument / [_ _ _ _ _ _] David Hume Esqr

Signed and dated

1777
datable to 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double-ruled border on laid paper (622x437)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Notes

There is a finished drawing of this design in the National Galleries of Scotland for which see: T. Clifford, Designs of Desire, Architectural Ornamental Prints and Drawings 1500-1850, 1999, p. 258.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 11
King, 2001, Vol .1, p. 359; Vol. 2, p. 265
Brown, 1991, p. 398
Further literature references in scheme notes

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