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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/128

Purpose

[55] Unfinished design for a mirror frame for the second drawing room, 1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a mirror frame ornamented with bands of fluting and laurel leaf tips, surmounted by a figurative oval bordered by a band of beading. The figurative oval is flanked by half-putti and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass Frame fronting Chimney in the Second Drawing Room / for Sir Watkin Wynn (underwritten in pencil) / N:B: The two Glas[s] (cropped) / in the Nich to hav (cropped) / the same Frame & (cropped) / 128 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • August 1773
    Adelphi Aug.st 21.st 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (265 x 417)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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