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[2] Design for a funerary monument, 1775, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 19/62
Purpose
[2] Design for a funerary monument, 1775, executed with alterations
Aspect
Perspective of a funerary monument, composed of a couch, supported by four legs, ornamented with volutes and anthemia, and above a central gadrooned urn, ornamented with a coat of arms, and on the couch lies a female figure in contemporary dress, and wearing a coronet, and behind her is a seated male figure in parliamentary robes, but his coronet rests on the pillow
Scale
measured
Inscribed
Lady Milton (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) / the Coronet should not be on / it should like at the Feet / the design is right. / the drapery & the [ _ _ _ _ ] with / flowers springing from it from / the Antique design [ _ _ _ _ ] herewith / may be well introduced / it is designed for a Gothick / Chapell
Signed and dated
- 1775
datable to 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and sepia wash on laid paper (446 x 290)
Hand
Unknown, possibly Agostino Carlini
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
Webb, 1958, p. 33
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 367
Roscoe, 2008, p. 203
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Webb, 1958, p. 33
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 367
Roscoe, 2008, p. 203
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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