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  • image SM Adam volume 21/179

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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