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[28] Design for a mirror frame for the eating room, 1782, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/228
Purpose
[28] Design for a mirror frame for the eating room, 1782, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a tripartite mirror frame divided by terms, adorned with Vitruvian scroll, enclosed rosettes, patera, urns, and a scalloped basket topped with fruit and foliage, and flanked by winged half-figures above a central oval roundel
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Glass frame for the Piers in the Eating room at Cullean Castle / L / K / M / K / I / N / I with some dimensions / 228 / (in a curator’s hand, in pencil) now in the 2nd or Long Drawing Room / Earl of Cassillis
Signed and dated
- 3/1782
March 1782
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured wash including Naples yellow, cerulean and pink on laid paper (313x453)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
IV
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 9
Harris, 2001, pp. 329-30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, pp. 329-30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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