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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/13

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation with a central pedestal containing an inscription panel and supporting a relief panel within a frame ornamented with caryatids, urns, and swags, and surmounted by a casket. The whole is flanked by small sarcophagi supporting banded columns, and against a pyramid in relief

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (137 x 131)

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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