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  • image SM Adam volume 21/165

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/165

Purpose

Preliminary design for two funerary monuments, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of two funerary monuments set within draped pointed arcades, supported by fluted and banded Doric columns. The left-hand monument has a double inscription panel surmounted by a base with an inscription panel, surmounted by busts, a sarcophagus, and putti flanking an urn, and the whole is set against a pyramid in relief ornamented with a portrait medallion and urns. The right-hand monument has a base ornamented with inscription panels, Greek key, ram masks and swags, surmounted by columns with heraldic emblems and supporting busts, flanking a cinerary urn and terms supporting a busts and military(?) trophies, and the whole is set against a pyramid in relief surmounted by an urn

Scale

not to sale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (329x208)

Hand

Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792) - Collections, architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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