[11] Design for a funerary monument, 1762, executed with minor alterations

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  - Westminster Abbey, London: Monument to James Thomson, commissioned by Patrick Murdoch and Andrew Millar, 1762, executed (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/27

Purpose

[11] Design for a funerary monument, 1762, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a wall-mounted monument, with acanthus leaf consoles, supporting a base ornamented with masks and an inscription panel, surmounted by a winged putto holding a laurel wreath, a circular pedestal ornamented with a figurative relief, and a figure in antique dress, holding a book, and with a lyre at his feet

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

JAMES THOMNOS (sic) / and some rough measurements given in pencil in the margin

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (194 x 271)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 51
Roscoe, 2009, p. 1161
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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