[2] Design for a funerary monument, 1775, executed with alterations

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  - Milton Abbey church, Dorset: Monument to Lady Caroline Milton, commissioned by Joseph Damer, Baron Milton, 1775, executed (4)
    - Preliminary design, design, finished drawing and record drawing for a funerary monument, 1775, executed with alterations (4)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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