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  • image SM Adam volume 19/36

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/36

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing 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, flanked by consoles. 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 within a circular recess, and it is flanked by Ionic pilasters, supporting enclosed rosettes and a broken-base pediment

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/3 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Monument for the late Right Reverend Dr. James Johnson (underwritten in pencil) / Lord Bishop of Worcester.

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    datable to 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (323 x 443)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
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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