Explore Collections

You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[3] Alternative preliminary designs for a free-standing funerary monument, 1778, unexecuted
Browse
Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/174
Purpose
[3] Alternative preliminary designs for a free-standing funerary monument, 1778, unexecuted
Aspect
Alternative rough elevations for a free-standing funerary monument. The left-hand design shows a tripartite pedestal, supported by a stylobate, containing an inscription panel, flanked by rectangular relief(?) panels, and surmounted by acroteria flanking a fluted sarcophagus, containing a tablet (ornamented with a coat of arms?), and supporting a bust. The right-hand design shows a pediment, supported by a stylobate, and containing a (rectangular or circular) inscription panel, and flanked by paired volutes, supporting a fluted sarcophagus, with a tablet containing a mitre, crozier and inverted torch, and supporting a bust on a socle, flanked by Corinthian(?) columns/pilasters, supporting a broken-base pediment, underneath which is a roundel containing a coat of arms, and the whole is set against a pyramid in relief
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Dr Johnson Bp / of Worcester
Signed and dated
- 1778
datable to 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (363 x 301)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk