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[1] Design for a pier glass frame for the front drawing room, c1789
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 3/1
Purpose
[1] Design for a pier glass frame for the front drawing room, c1789
Aspect
Elevation of a mirror frame, surmounted by a fluted socle supporting a figurative oval, surmounted by an anthemion. This is flanked by recumbent, winged sphinxes and arabesques, and all is linked by festoons of husks
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Design of a Glass frame for the Piers in the Front Drawing Room at The Lord Chief Barons in Great George Street- and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1789
c1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, cerulean blue and pink on laid paper (325 x 464)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand
Office hand
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 37
Harris, 1963, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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