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  • image SM Adam volume 20/184

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/184

Purpose

[18] Record drawing for a glass frame for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a mirror frame, as SM Adam volume 20/183

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Eating room at Mistley Hall / 184

Signed and dated

  • August 1778
    Adelphi / Aug.st 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 423)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

Preliminary design for a girandole, with a shell flanked by festoons of calyx forming a wall fixing, this suspends a rosette and a wreath of calyx enclosing a cameo. This has an apron of ram masks, with two flanking candle branches

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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