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[40] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the third drawing room, 1774, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/142
Purpose
[40] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the third drawing room, 1774, possibly executed
Aspect
Elevation of a mirror frame ornamented with a band of continuous wreaths enclosing rosettes, and a moulded band with corners in the form of shells with anthemia aprons. The frame is surmounted by a scrolled heart flanked by sphinxes and half-putti with arabesques, and these support a figurative oval bearing arabesques and a canopy surmounted by an anthemion and further sphinxes. The figurative oval is flanked by tablets containing winged sphinxes and bearing urns, and these are linked with semi-circular bands of calyx above a central band ornamented with guilloche, and terminating in rosettes and calyx. The tablets have aprons of linking festoons
Scale
bar scale of
Inscribed
Glass Frame for the 3.d Drawing Room at Ashburnham House- / 142
Signed and dated
- August 1774
Adelphi / 25.t Aug.st 1774.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, cerulean blue and Indian red on laid paper (327x460)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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