drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0420.4
- Description
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Design for the monument to Joshua Ward; whole-length to front in a niche, head to half-left, his right arm outstretched, his left hand holding up the drapery with which he is partly cloaked, his left elbow resting on a plinth decorated with an oval medallion containing a pelican, emblem of Charity, with on top of the plinth, the serpent staff of Aesculapius, and beside the figure's right foot, another emblem of Aesculapius, the cock, perched on a book. c.1760-61
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1760-1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 366 millimetres
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Width: 236 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Ward had commissioned Carlini to design his monument a year or two before his death, but did not leave instructions about the monument in his will. Carlini had already begun work on the figure, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. He later exhibited a model of the monument but no more work was done on the statue and no monument was erected. This drawing was acquired as by Roubiliac and the attribution was accepted (e.g. by Edward Croft-Murray) until 1992 when Marjorie Trusted recognized it as the study for the Ward statue. For further details about Carlini and the commission for the Ward monument, see her article '"A Man of Talent": Agostino Carlini (c.1718-1790)', Burlington Magazine, Dec.1992, pp.778-782.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1920,0420.4
