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Decorum and celebration of the family line: Robert Adam’s monuments to the 1st Duchess of Northumberland
05/2010 | 1286 | 152
Pages: 288-296
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Author:
Aymonino, Adriano (Aymonino, Adriano)
Subjects
artists:
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792
artists:
Read, Nicholas
buildings:
Westminster Abbey, London, Great Britain
dates:
1770-1779 / 1780-1789
museums and institutions:
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Percy, Elizabeth Seymour, First Duchess of Northumberland, 1716-1776 / Percy, Hugh Smithson, First Duke of Northumberland, 1712-1786
print:
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792
subjects:
British architecture / British sculpture / Sepulchral monuments / Funerary art / Architectural drawings / Drawings / Commissions / Neo-classicism / Iconography / Visual sources / Contracts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Project for the monument to the 1st Duchess of Northumberland in Westminster Abbey, from Robert Adam’s office. 1778. Pen with grey wash, 59.2 by 42.9 cm. (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
Attributed works:
10. Monument to Samuel Egerton, St Mary’s church, Rostherne, Cheshire, by John Bacon. 1792. White marble.
Attributed works:
2. Monument to the Duchess of Northumberland, St Nicholas chapel, West­minster Abbey, by Robert Adam and Nicholas Read. 1778–82. White and black marble.
Attributed works:
3. Sketch for a sarcophagus for the Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle, by Robert Adam. c.1778. Pencil with grey wash, 17.5 by 24.6 cm. (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. Project for the monument to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham, in Westminster Abbey, by James Gibbs. From J. Gibbs: A Book of Architecture, London 1728, pl.116.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.2.
Western art unattributed:
4. Plan of Westminster Abbey. From Central London Atlas-Guide. Designed by Bartholomew, Edinburgh 1951, p.35.
Western art unattributed:
6. Monument to Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, St Nicholas chapel, Westminster Abbey. After 1587. Mixed materials.
Western art unattributed:
9. Coat of arms of the Percy family. From A. Collins: The Peerage of England . . ., London 1779, II, p.280, pl.25.