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  • image SM Adam volume 1/250

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/250

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a funerary monument, with a strigilated sarcophagus, ornamented with a roundel, supported by a stylobate, and set against a pyramid, ornamented with a fluted string course, flanked by broken columns, and with a Doric portico and pediment projecting from one side

Scale

to a scale

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

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 267
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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