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[7] Design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 19/28
Purpose
[7] Design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevations showing variants for a wall-mounted monument, both with acanthus leaf consoles, supporting a base containing a central inscription panel, flanked by roundels on one variant, and lion masks on the other, supporting a putto holding a shield - the putto on one variant is winged - and leaning against a sarcophagus ornamented with a lyre, and a figurative relief medallion. The sarcophagus is also ornamented with strigillation on one variant, but both are surmounted by a bust
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
JAMES THO......... / BORN 18 OCTOR DIED [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]
Signed and dated
- 1762
datable to 1762
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (268 x 217)
Hand
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.
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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