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  • image SM Adam volume 54/2/12

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/12

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for the funerary monument of Major General James Wolfe, 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation with a sarcophagus with a curved top supporting a relief panel within a frame of caryatids and surmounted by an attic with festoons, surmounted by an urn. The whole is flanked by pedestals carrying smoking candelabra. On the right a tall pedestal carrying a small casket, and with pencil annotations

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (201 x 258)

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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