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[11] Design for a funerary monument to David Garrick, 1779, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 44/84
Purpose
[11] Design for a funerary monument to David Garrick, 1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a funerary monument, with a deep, rectangular pedestal, surmounted by a sarcophagus, ornamented with fret, a cameo, a band of stiff leaf, and an ox skull flanked by festoons in the volute top, and the sarcophagus is flanked by engaged stiff leaf capital columns, between which is a band of guilloche, surmounted by a segmental compartment enclosing a mask and music instruments, and the whole is surmounted by a Doric frieze ornamented with masks and instruments, and a pediment with a central acroterion
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Monument for Sir Watkin Wynne Baronet (verso) W. W. Wynne Monument / & 2 pair plan (both recto and verso inscriptions are on a small separate sheet of paper affixed to the top edge of the drawing)
Signed and dated
- 1779
Adelphi / 2d. August 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (379 x 494)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
IV
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 267
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 267
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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