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  • image SM Adam volume 24/172

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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