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[2] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, c1762-63, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 2/172
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, c1762-63, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a sarcophagus, with a voluted lid, and containing a roundel, supported by a console wall bracket ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, surmounted by an inscription panel, and flanked by Ionic columns, supporting an entablature, and a pediment formed of two volutes with a central anthemia
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1762-63
datable to c1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (125 x 164)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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