[12] Design for an overmantel mirror frame, c1783, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/243

Purpose

[12] Design for an overmantel mirror frame, c1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel, five-part mirror frame with tapering pilaster stiles, with bases ornamented with rosettes, and fluted capitals bearing miniature tablets. Above this there is a frieze of fluting, surmounted by small urns and a central mirrored compartment. The compartment has turned supports and a frieze of fluting, with an apron of calyx and festoons of beading. All this is surmounted by a figurative cameo bearing a crown, flanked by swans and urns

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

243

Signed and dated

c1783
c1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (329 x 428)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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