[12] Design for a funerary monument to David Garrick, 1779, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Wynnstay House, Ruabon, Denbighshire: unexecuted designs for the house, unexecuted designs for a monument to David Garrick for the park, and an executed design for a font for St Mary's Church, Ruabon, for Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, 1770-79 (13)
    - Alternative designs for a funerary monument to David Garrick, 1779, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/83

Purpose

[12] Design for a funerary monument to David Garrick, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a funerary monument, with a pedestal, with a central moulded compartment, surmounted by a festoon, and flanked by projecting portions, which support truncated columns, in between which is a sarcophagus, ornamented with a roundel, and a band of stiff leaf, surmounted by a segmental compartment, two enclosed rosettes, a plain tablet, and the whole is surmounted by a flaming urn in a pedestal ornamented with a cameo

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Monument for Sir Williams Wynne (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 1

Signed and dated

1779
datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (597 x 489)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 267
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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