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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/143

Purpose

[31] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the second drawing room, 1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame ornamented with a band of reed and ribbon, a band of anthemia alternating with calyx, a band of beading, and a moulded band. The frame is surmounted by a socle base ornamented with a paterae, ram masks, and a band of Vitruvian scroll. The base supports and urn ornamented with gadrooning and bearing an anthemion. The urn supports festoons which link to flanking winged griffins with tails forming arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame over Chimney Piece in second Drawing Room at Ashburnham House. / 143

Signed and dated

  • November 1775
    Adelphi / Nov.r 29.t 1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (375 x 537)

Hand

Office hand, possibly 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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