The architectural design shows a marble monument, crowned with a triangular pediment, with acroteria at the corners and containing a roundel with a ducal coronet framed by laurel leaves. The central part of the monument contains two mourning female figures clutching an urn, with a clear tablet below for a dedicatory inscription, the whole white marble edifice set on a large dark marble step and surround. In the completed Dorset monument the form remains identical, with the substitution of a portrait of the deceased Duke for the ducal coronet and a single seated woman for the two mourning figures. According to Flaxman’s surviving account book the Dorset monument cost 500 guineas.