[23] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the back drawing room, c.1770-71, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Edinburgh
    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
      - Designs, finished drawings and record copies for chimneypieces for a house, 1771 (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/172

Purpose

[23] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the back drawing room, c.1770-71, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame comprising pilasters decorated with guilloche, and fluted capitals surmounted by urns, with a frieze containing anthemion and calyx pairs above a band of lozenges, and a large urn flanked by reclining figures above the mantel

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Lord Chief Baron Ord’s back Drawing Room

Signed and dated

1770-71
datable to 1770-71

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (262x398)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
Brune, 1991, pp. 475-482
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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