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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/2/30 verso

Purpose

[6] Preliminary designs for a funerary monument, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevations of four alternative designs for a funerary monument. The first design, in the top left-hand corner, is a wall-mounted monument, composed of a frame ornamented with fluting and rosettes, with an apron of volutes and a rectangular inscription panel, containing a bust on a socle, and surmounted by a pediment with anthemia acroteria The second design, in the top right-hand corner, is a wall-mounted monument, composed of a sarcophagus, supported by consoles, and ornamented with volutes, and a rectangular figurative panel, supporting a bust on a socle, in front of a rectangular figurative panel, surmounted by a shell. The third design, in the bottom right-hand corner, is freestanding, and composed of a bust on a socle, supported by a pediment. And the forth design, in the bottom right-hand corner, is a wall-mounted monument, composed of a sarcophagus, supported by consoles, and containing a roundel within a rectangular frame on the principal front, and a lyre on the side, and supporting a bust on a socle, and set against an oval panel

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and red pencil on laid paper (171 x 227)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

HR

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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