[40] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the third drawing room, 1774, possibly executed

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    - Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
      - Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the third drawing room, 1774, possibly executed (1)

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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

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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

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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