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This drawing has a clear outline, which suggests that it was made when the creative thinking was over and the design was ready to be shown to the client. However, it is not  as finished as some of Rysbrack's other designs for monuments.  For example, he does not attempt to imitate marble in the thin, even layer of watercolour (known as wash) over the triangular section behind the figures. <br><br><b>People</b><br>Thomas Foley was a Member of Parliament for Stafford for 18 years until he was raised to the peerage in 1712.  He was one of 12 Tory peers created at this date.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>This design is not the same as the monument, itself, which is in St Michael's Church, Great Witley, Worcestershire.  In the actual monument, the figures of the mother and child are on the same level as the reclining Lord Foley. The central, standing figure in the top row of the design is replaced by an urn.  The engraver and diarist  George Vertue (1684-1756) praised  Rysbrack's monuments (and in doing so mentioned the one to Lord Foley), stating that they were  'standing Monuments to his Fame'.","physicalDescription":"Design for a memorial in Great Witley Church, to Thomas Lord Foley (d.1733) and his wife Mary (Strode), and their children, showing seven figures in total, reclining, leaning or standing around a plinth on three levels. 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Worcestershire, England, ca.1733.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria &amp; Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design &amp; Department of Paintings,  Accessions 1946</u>.  London:  Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"figures","id":"AAT189808"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nNoblemen in the 18th century liked to think of themselves as the modern equivalents of ancient Greeks and Romans. Their classical Palladian houses reflected this, as did the monuments to their memory. In this design, Lord Foley (died 1733) and his family are dressed like Romans, in front of a large obelisk.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["E.430-1946"],"accessionNumberNum":"430","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1946,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR2868","2019LP4399","2019LV6139"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}