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Description: | Design for a memorial sculpture with figures mounted on a plinth with a door set into a trapezoid support. The central figure of a man is facing the viewer with his right hand resting on a low column to the left. Beneath his hand a document can be seen with the inscription Mag[na] Car[ta]. To the left of the central figure is a seated female figure and the right a standing female figure. There are cherubs with decorative swags on the base of the plinth.
medium: ink (brown)
medium: pencil
Design for a Monument to Charles James Fox: Defending the Magna Carta by Thomas Stothard, about 1806, (1980.379). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.108225 | Go to resource |
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