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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/141

Purpose

[33] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the second drawing room, 1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a mirror frame ornamented with a band of anthemia alternating with calyx and a band of laurel leaf tips. The frame is surmounted by an oval formed with a band of calyx, and this contains a draped cameo depicting a lekythos and a rosette flanked by thyrsi and surmounted by an anthemion. Above this there is a wreath enclosing a further anthemion, and all this is flanked by armorial supporters in the form of greyhounds, arabesques and rosettes. The greyhounds support panels containing anthemia and surmounted by lekythoi bearing anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the 2.d Drawing room at Ashburnham House / 141

Signed and dated

  • October 1774
    Adelphi / 18.t Oct.r 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue, Indian yellow and violet on laid paper (275 x 449)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

King, 2001, Volume I, p. 298
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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