[64] Unfinished design for an overmantel mirror frame for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, 1773, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Unfinished designs for an overmantel mirror frame for Lady Williams-Wynn's dressing room, 1773, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/129

Purpose

[64] Unfinished design for an overmantel mirror frame for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, 1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame ornamented with bands of acanthus leaf and laurel leaf tips. The frame is surmounted by a figurative oval bordered with beading, and this supports ribbons and an anthemion. The figurative oval is flanked by arabesques and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass over Chimney in Lady Wynn’s Dressing Room / Medalion to be placed up on the (pencil) / molding without the Knot & (pencil) / Honey suckle [_ _ _ _ _] (pencil) / to remain (pencil) / Chimney / Surbase / 129 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

August 1773
Adelphi August 21.st 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (261 x 395)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS 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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