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  • image SM Adam volume 54/2/15

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/15

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, c1762-63, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a pedestal surmounted by a band of Vitruvian scroll, supporting a sarcophagus ornamented with a cameo, flanked on either side by spirally fluted Doric columns carrying a Doric frieze ornamented with a coat of arms, volutes, and a wheat sheaf (verso) pencil-drawn festoons, one supported by a term

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1762-63
    datable to c1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (189 x 230)

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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