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[3] Presentation drawing showing alternative designs for a monumental tablet, 9 December 1814
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Reference number
SM 63/6/50
Purpose
[3] Presentation drawing showing alternative designs for a monumental tablet, 9 December 1814
Aspect
Three elevations
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
The Right Honble Viscountess Bridport, (pencil) No 4, No 5, No 6
Signed and dated
- Lincolns Inn Fields / December 9th 1814
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, burnt umber, sepia and Payne's grey washes, within brown quadruple ruled and wash border on wove paper (520 x 337)
Hand
George Basevi (1794-1845, pupil 1810-16)
Notes
The three desigs in this drawing are copies of elevations of variant prelimnary designs for the freestanding monument to Samuel Bosanquet at Leyton, 1807 (q.v.), adapted as wall tablets. Design 'No. 4' corresponds to SM 63/6/38, reduced in length; 'No. 5' to SM 63/6/43, with the decoration slightly modifiied; and 'No. 6' to SM 63/6/46, a design which was also used for the DeLoutherbourg tomb at Chiswick in 1812.
Level
Drawing
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