[33] Design for a mirror frame for the Earl of Cassilis’s dressing room, 1782, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Culzean Castle, Ayrshire: designs for additions to a castle-style building and its stables and walled gardens, along with a home farm, viaduct, and interior decoration and furniture for David Kennedy, 10th Earl of Cassilis, c.1776-87, executed in part (57)
    - Designs, finished drawings and record drawings for the interior of Culzean castle, 1778-82, as executed (34)
      - Design for a pair of mirror frames for the Earl of Cassilis’s Dressing Room, 1782, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/234

Purpose

[33] Design for a mirror frame for the Earl of Cassilis’s dressing room, 1782, as executed

Aspect

Oval mirror frame with a waterleaf border, with a dropped peltoid shield containing a mask and terminating in candleholders at the bottom, and flanking reclining figures at the top topped by a panel containing an enclosed rosette and swags, surmounted by a swan and held by a string of beads terminating in an enclosed lion mask with festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Earl of Cassillis’s / Dressing room / 234 with some dimensions

Signed and dated

1782
1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and coloured wash including Naples yellow and cerulean on laid paper (266x449)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Notes

Harris suggests that this design was probably for the dressing room on the first floor, adjoining the ‘best’ bedroom.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
Harris, 2001, p. 327
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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