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  • image SM Adam volume 19/24

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/24

Purpose

[10] Design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a wall-mounted monument, supported by two consoles ornamented with acanthus leaves, and with an inscription, ox skull, and swags in between, surmounted by a book, a relief medallion, a strigillated sarcophagus, and a figure is seated against the sarcophagus in contemporary dress

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (296 x 430)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 266
Roscoe, 2009, p. 1161
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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