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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/25

Purpose

[8] Design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a wall-mounted monument, with acanthus leaf consoles, supporting a base ornamented with masks and an inscription panel, surmounted by a winged putto holding a laurel wreath, a strigillated sarcophagus containing a figurative relief medallion, and a bust, and with pencil-drawn details of moulding below

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

JAMES THOMNOS (sic)

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (251 x 403)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 266
Roscoe, 2009, p. 1161
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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