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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Monuments and mausolea
  - St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall: Monument to the Rt Hon. Admiral Edward Boscawen, commissioned by Frances Boscawen, 1761, executed (15)

Preliminary design, design and finished drawing for the funerary monument of Admiral Boscawen, 1761, unexecuted (3)

The circular concave fluted recess for the bust can be seen in another, earlier scheme for the monument (Adam volume 54/2/17).

Adam volumes 19/3-4 make use of coronets in the form of a corona muralis and a corona civica on each, being Roman symbols of military decoration.

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SM Adam volume 54/2/31

St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall: Monument to the Rt Hon. Admiral Edward Boscawen, commissioned by Frances Boscawen, 1761, executed (15)

[9] Preliminary design for the funerary monument of Admiral Boscawen, 1761, unexecuted (3)

datable to 1761

SM Adam volume 54/2/31

SM Adam volume 19/4

St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall: Monument to the Rt Hon. Admiral Edward Boscawen, commissioned by Frances Boscawen, 1761, executed (15)

[10] Design for the funerary monument of Admiral Boscawen, 1761, unexecuted (3)

datable to 1761

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

SM Adam volume 19/4

SM Adam volume 19/3

St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall: Monument to the Rt Hon. Admiral Edward Boscawen, commissioned by Frances Boscawen, 1761, executed (15)

[11] Finished drawing for the funerary monument of Admiral Boscawen, 1761, unexecuted (3)

datable to 1761

SM Adam volume 19/3

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