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  • image SM Adam volume 19/82

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/82

Purpose

[9] Design for a funerary monument to Robert Child, 1782, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a monument as Adam volume 19/80, but set against a pyramid in relief, and this is set against a window, and with a pencil-drawn putto to the right-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

[R]OB[ERT] / To the MEMORY of ROB[ERT] (in pencil) and some dimensions given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1782
    datable to 1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (339 x 434)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, Index p. 265
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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