[36] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1772, possibly executed

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  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/112

Purpose

[36] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1772, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite mirror frame with Doric pilaster stiles, supported by pedestals ornamented with paterae, and with linking bands of enclosed calyx. The piers of the frame are ornamented with lion masks enclosed within wreaths of husks crossed with bands of calyx, and this supports two candle branches. Above this there are rosettes enclosed within wreaths of husks crossed by bands of calyx. The mirror frame has capitals ornamented with arabesques, with bands of enclosed calyx between. The mirror is surmounted by a figurative oval bearing arabesques and an anthemion, and this is flanked by recumbent winged sphinxes and urns ornamented with ram masks bearing festoons

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Drawing room at Luton / 112 / underside of Entablature / Back of Window architrave / Back of Window architrave / Mo[_ _ _ _] / Tables 5. ft 10 1/2 long / Leg (?) / 2. 11 wide / - 2 3/8 [_ _ _ _ _ _] - and some dimesions given

Signed and dated

September 1772
Adelphi / 10.t Sep.r 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue and Indian yellow (448 x 604)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 69; Volume II, Index, p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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