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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/8

Purpose

[35] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the drawing room, c1784, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with scrolled stiles, terminating in anthemia, capitals containing urns, and a central tablet ornamented with an urn bearing sphinxes and festoons. This is surmounted by an overmantel mirror frame, with Corinthian pilaster stiles, ornamented with bands of calyx and a frieze of anthemia enclosed within semi-circular bands of festoons. There is a central semi-circular-headed compartment, articulated by tapering herm pilasters, and these support a band of enclosed anthemia. There is a figurative roundel, set within the semi-circular head, and this is flanked by festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Manner proposed for finishing over the Chimney in the / Drawing room at Brasted / faint pencil inscription

Signed and dated

  • c1784
    c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including cerulean blue, Indian yellow and pink (254 x 464)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Curtels & Sons

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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