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[4] Working drawing for a frame, c1767-72
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 5/34
Purpose
[4] Working drawing for a frame, c1767-72
Aspect
Elevation and section of a detail of a picture frame and a detail of a mirror frame. The picture frame is ornamented with bands of reeding bound by acanthus leaves, fluting and darts, unlobed acanthus leaves and darts, enclosed acanthus leaves and darts, and surmounted by acanthus crockets. The mirror frame is ornamented with bands of guilloche, strigils and anthemia, beading, fluting, and enclosed anthemia and darts
Scale
to a scale, appearing to be greater than full size
Inscribed
Part of Picture frame / at large / Part of Glass Frame at large for Paul / Methuen Esqr
Signed and dated
- 1767-1772
date range: 1767-72
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (346 x 507)
Hand
Adam office hand
Literature
Bolton, 1922, volume II, Index p. 7
Harris, 1963, p. 49
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 49
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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