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  • image SM Adam volume 18/30

Reference number

SM Adam volume 18/30

Purpose

[108] Preliminary design for chinoiserie mirror frames, 1769

Aspect

Rough elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, with a central compartment containing an oval mirror painted with a pagoda, and framed within rinceaux, with outer, rectangular compartments containing enclosed rosettes, with an apron of festoons, rinceaux, and calyx, and surmounted by tubular flowers, half-figures, and rinceaux

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Edw Lascelles Esq

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (186 x 281)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 24
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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