[6] Finished drawing for a mirror frame between the doors in the drawing room, 1776, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Dover Street, number unknown, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for Dr Richard Warren, 1775-76 (8)
      - Alternative design and finished drawing for a mirror frame between the doors in the drawing room, 1776, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/155

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a mirror frame between the doors in the drawing room, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, articulated by narrow terms, ornamented with drops of calyx, and with the central portion of the top rail being higher than the portions flanking it, containing a fan composed of calyx, and surmounted by winged sphinxes flanking a medallion and naturalistic anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame between Doors in Doctor Warrens Drawing room

Signed and dated

1776
Adelphi / June 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (290 x 406)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
Harris, 1963, Index p. 59
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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