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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/248

Purpose

[4] Design for a free-standing funerary monument, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a free-standing funerary monument, with a rectangular pedestal, supported by a stylobate, containing an inscription panel, and flanked by volutes. This supports a fluted sarcophagus, containing a tablet ornamented with arms, mitre, crozier and inverted torch. The sarcophagus is surmounted by a bust on a socle in front of a roundel, and it is flanked by Ionic pilasters, supporting a broken-base pediment

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    datable to 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (244 x 416)

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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