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[4] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/2/30
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a monument with a rectangular pedestal, and the central portion projecting, and containing a rectangular figurative panel and festoons, and surmounted by an inscription panel, and the pedestal is surmounted by a bust on a socle in front of a wreath, within a square fluted frame, with a music instrument in each corner, and surmounted by a pediment ornamented with egg and dart, dentils, an animal mask in the tympanum, and with enclosed anthemia acroteria, and with a rough figurative roundel drawn in the top right-hand corner
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1762
datable to 1762
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pen on laid paper (171 x 227)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
HR
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 266
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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