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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/8

Purpose

[2] Preliminary designfor the funerary monument of Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, 1760, executed with alterations

Aspect

Rough perspective within a lancet arch, with an inscription panel surmounted by an indistinct coat of arms, and flanked by two atlantes in Roman dress, supporting a scroll-topped sarcophagus containing a relief panel depicting Townshend's death scene and ornamental panels of military standards, and surmounted by military trophies, and set against a pyramid in relief

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1760
    datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (217 x 322)

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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