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  • image SM Adam volume 21/190

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/190

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a funerary monument to Robert Child, 1782, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a rectangular wall mounted monument, containing an inscription panel, and ornamented with swags hung from ram masks and a rosette, with an apron of festoons hung from rosettes and a ox skull, and surmounted by an urn flanked by putti

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1782
    datable to 1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (168 x 186)

Hand

Robert Adam

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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