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  • image SM Adam volume 20/214

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/214

Purpose

[30] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the first library, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite, overmantel mirror frame, with tapering stiles terminating in rosettes. The central compartment is surmounted by a panel containing a cameo flanked by festoons of husks. Above this there is a pedestal supporting an urn, and this is flanked by festoons, putti, and palmettes. The flanking compartments are surmounted by winged sphinxes

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame over Chimney in first Library room at Roxburghe House / 214 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • September 1779
    18.t Sep.r 1779. / (cropped)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, cerulean blue and pink on laid (297 x 447)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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