[16] Finished drawing for a commode and mirror frame for the drawing room, 1781, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Cullen House, Moray: designs for the interior decoration of Cullen House and an entrance screen for James Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Findlater and 3rd Earl of Seafield, and designs for a chimney piece and furniture for the drawing room at Cullen House, along with a tea pavilion, town house or gardener’s house, and a gated lodge for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1767-83, executed in part (26)
    - Preliminary drawings and designs for mirror frames, a commode and a chimneypiece in the drawing room for the 7th Earl of Findlater, 1781, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/250

Purpose

[16] Finished drawing for a commode and mirror frame for the drawing room, 1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a commode and mirror frame, same as SM Adam volume 20/225 with the omission of enclosed anthemia in the border of the lower glass frame compartment and addition of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Glass and Table frame for the Piers in the Drawing room / at Cullen house / 250

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including yellow ochre and cerulean on laid paper (308x505)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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