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  • image SM Adam volume 20/219

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/219

Purpose

[54] Design for a glass frame, 1780, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame suspended from a central rosette flanked by swags and drop calyx. The rosette has an apron of anthemia and calyx enclosed within olive branch wreaths. The oval mirror frame is ornamented with an oval band of roundels enclosing calyx, and an oval band of fluting. The mirror frame has an apron of rosettes, calyx and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Duke of Roxburghe- / 219

Signed and dated

  • 1780
    1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (173 x 383)

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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