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[1] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, c1762-63, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 18/83
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, c1762-63, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough pencil-drawn elevations of two wall mounted funerary monuments, one being composed of a strigilated sarcophagus, ornamented with a portrait medallion, and supported by consoles flanking an inscription panel, and the other is the same, but set within an architrave, with a fluted base rail, Doric columns to either side, an inscription panel in the frieze, and surmounted by a pediment
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1762-63
datable to c1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (136 x 295)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
GR surmounted by a crown
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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