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  • image SM Adam volume 2/172

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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