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Drawing, A Sepulchral Monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1720-1788), ca. 1818 (CH 18116791)

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Drawing, A Sepulchral Monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1720-1788), ca. 1818 (CH 18116791)

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The two half-figures are shown as standing behind the balustrade of a loggia. A canopy with the coat-of-arms of the Stuarts from the background. On top of a sepulchral chamber shown before the balustrade are: a young man in the attire of Hercules seated beside a cinerary receptacle upon which the insignia of a bishop and a helmet and sword lie on a cushion. The architectural setting is that of a lateral chapel in a church with framing lines.

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1818
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Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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