[23] Design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

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  - Mistley Hall and Village, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1774-82 (34)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/180

Purpose

[23] Design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a mirror frame, surmounted by corner pedestals bearing urns, and a central figurative roundel, flanked by winged sphinxes supporting cornices. The cornices are ornamented with corner anthemia and crockets, and the roundel is surmounted by arabesques supporting an urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Drawing room at Mistley Hall / 180

Signed and dated

1778
Adelphi / August 1778-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, Naples yellow and violet on laid paper (245 x 428)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 22
Harris, 1963, p. 50
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 249
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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