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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/45

Purpose

[8] Preliminary design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, c1776-78

Aspect

Rough elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, within a pencil-drawn relieving arch or apse, ornamented with terms, festoons, an urn, griffons, a fan, and surmounted by an oval medallion. To the right-hand side of the sheet is a partially drawn table in pen, and below is a pencil-drawn window

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Mrs St Johns Drawing Room

Signed and dated

  • 1776-1778
    datable to 1776-78

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on sugar paper (273 x 371)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
Harris, 1963, Index p. 52
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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