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  • image SM Adam volume 54/2/11

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/11

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a monument with a deep stylobate, supporting a rectangular pedestal containing a tabula insulata-shaped inscription panel, and festoons, with the central portion of the pedestal projecting, and with a frieze of Vitruvian scroll, and the pedestal is surmounted by a bust on a socle, and flanked by sculpted winged figures, and columns supporting a fluted frieze, and a pediment composed of volutes, and with anthemia acroteria

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on laid paper (91 x 88)

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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