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Reference number

SM Adam volume 18/85

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for a relief panel for the funerary monument of Major-General James Wolfe, 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a relief panel showing Wolfe's death scene: Wolfe in Roman military dress, seated, surrounded by his comrades, and gesturing to his second in command, George Townshend, within a tent

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (375 x 249)

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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