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Design

ca.1737 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a mural tablet to John Milton in Westminster Abbey showing front and side elevations. Inscribed in pen with scale and on the back with details of small sums of money.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and wash on paper
Brief description
Design for a mural tablet to John Milton in Westminster Abbey by John Rysbrack, showing front and side elevations. Great Britain, ca.1737.
Physical description
Design for a mural tablet to John Milton in Westminster Abbey showing front and side elevations. Inscribed in pen with scale and on the back with details of small sums of money.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.9375in
  • Width: 5.5in
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed in pen with the scale and on the back with details of small sums of money
Object history
This design bears some resemblance to the memorial to the second and third Dukes of Beaufort in Badminton Church, Gloucestershire.

E.431, E.433, E.435, E.437, E.439, E.444, E.452 and E.453 are from the collection of Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784).
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Collection
Accession number
E.442-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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