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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

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 37
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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