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Variant unfinished design and finished drawing for a pier glass frame for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, drawing 84 executed with minor alterations (2)

The Etruscan dressing room pier glass frame was executed in painted and gilt wood very nearly in accordance with Adam volume 20/44, and survives in situ. As in the overmantel mirror frame for the Etruscan room at Derby House (SM Adam volume 23/51), the black colouring of the frame was chosen to accord with the Etruscan decorations of the room.

Harris has noted that 'the extension of the glass into the crest, [was] a new device which seems to have attracted Adam at this moment'.
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