[5] Design for a mirror frame, c.1769, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Little Wallingford House, Whitehall: designs for a screen and gateway, and mirror frames, for Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull, 1761-69, executed to a variant design (5)
      - Designs and record drawing for mirror frames, 1769, executed status unknown (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/222

Purpose

[5] Design for a mirror frame, c.1769, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular mirror frame adorned with enclosed rosettes, fluting and acanthus leaves, with an urn over the top of the mirror with a calyx drop with flanking scrolling foliage supporting a festoon, and a shell with an anthemion drop and scrolling foliage over the bottom of the mirror

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Earl of Kenowle / 222

Signed and dated

c.1769
datable to c.1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and Indian yellow wash on laid paper (215x353)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Guiseppe Manocchi, Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

Fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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