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[13] 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 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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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