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  • image SM Adam volume 54/2/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/19

Purpose

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

Aspect

Rough elevation of a monument, with a deep stylobate, supporting a rectangular pedestal, with the central portion projecting, and ornamented with a medallion, flanked by further decoration - possibly musical instruments, and with a fluted frieze, and the pedestal is surmounted by a bust on a socle, in front of a wreath, and within a square foliate frame, and surmounted by a fluted frieze, and a pediment composed of two 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 (69 x 90)

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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