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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/7

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a funerary monument, 1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a detail of a funerary monument, composed of a gothic casket, ornamented with coats of arms, triangular-headed niches containing urns and caskets, with niches containing miniature figurative sculptures in between, and surmounted by a recumbent sculpture and a seated sculpture behind, both wearing coronets

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Milton

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    datable to 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (259 x 204)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
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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