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[3] Preliminary design for a funerary monument to Robert Child, 1782, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/179
Purpose
[3] Preliminary design for a funerary monument to Robert Child, 1782, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of two wall mounted monuments. The left-hand monument is composed of a torn scroll-shaped inscription panel, set against a rectangular compartment with an apron of a ox skull and a festoon, and surmounted by an urn. The right-hand monument is composed of a torn scroll-shaped inscription panel, set against a rectangular compartment, with an apron of a skull flanked by festoons, and supported by fluted consoles surmounted by oval medallions, and the whole is surmounted by a fluted urn flanked by putti
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1782
datable to 1782
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (149 x 141)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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