Drawings for a monument featuring a figure on horseback and a panel inset of allegorical figures

SPCAA/CR/1/7

Two pencil drawings on paper mounted on cardboard

The first drawing is a design for a monument featuring a figure atop a raised pedestal on a stepped plinth. The figure is on horseback and wears a plume helmet and his right hand is raised in saultation. The raised podium below conatins an inset intended for inscription and below this is space intended for allegroical panel insets. The raised podium sits atop a stepped plinth and a lion sits on each of the four corners of the plinth. Two drawn figures stand next to the monument to portray the scale and to the right of the designed monument is a rough skecth of an aerial view of the stepped plinth. The second drawing is a panel inset of allegorical figures. An enthroned male figure, possibly a personification of Britain, sits in the center of the drawing. He wears Roman military garb and a cape and holds an orb in his left hand and a sword toped with a brid figure in the other. He rests one foot on a stool and his throne sits atop a podium bearing a crest with a grffin on either side and topped with a crown. A female figure stands to the right of the male figure holding a scroll and medicine stick. Two allegorical figures stand behind her at the very far right of the design, one of which is Britannia in a plumed helmet and holding a shield. On the left of the steaed figure stands a woman wearing a habit with a roasry at her waist and holding a chalice. Two figures, one male, one female, stand at the very far left of the picture. The standing male figure wears a toga and is leaning on a club. In both the bottom left and bottom right croners of the drawing, five women bearing tribal tattoos on their arms and wrists kneel at the foot of the throne upon which the central maele figure sits.

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