Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, Intended to be executed with white marble and marbles of many colors. Below is a base. One sarcophagus stands in the central panel of the dado. Above it is a lion skin serving as a tablet for the inscription. IT is laterally held by putti sitting upon moldings. Above is an order of three embedded Ionic columns. In the central inter-columniation is a niche with the statue of an ederly man in armor. Laterally are two niches with two elderly men each with a book.

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