[12] Design for ornamental panels on the sides of the sarcophagus on the funerary monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, 1760, as executed

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  - Westminster Abbey, London: Monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, commissioned by Viscountess Townshend, 1760, executed (13)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/69

Purpose

[12] Design for ornamental panels on the sides of the sarcophagus on the funerary monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Townshend, 1760, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a military standard composed of a staff ornamented with a swag, a crown of laurel leaves, a portrait medallion of the prince (later King George III), a pine cone, an enclosed rosette, and a panel containing a swag, surmounted by a unicorn

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

1760
datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (225 x 377)

Hand

Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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