[63] Design for a picture frame, 1779

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    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Either Wormleybury or Hill Street (5)
        Design for a picture frame, 1779 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/207

Purpose

[63] Design for a picture frame, 1779

Aspect

Elevation of a picture frame alternatively ornamented with corner arabesques surmounted by shells, and borders of laurel leaf tips and fluting. The frame is surmounted by a shield enclosed within a wreath surrounded by trophies, and has an apron of festoons

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design of a Picture frame for Sir Abraham Hume Bart. / Adelphi / 20. July 1779 / 207

Signed and dated

July 1779
Adelphi / 20. July 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (539 x 362)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Harris, 1963, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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