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[2] Preliminary design for an overmantel mirror frame, c1787, not known to have been executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 3/47
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for an overmantel mirror frame, c1787, not known to have been executed
Aspect
Rough elevation of an overmantel mirror frame, showing the top of the chimneypiece, surmounted by an oval frame, ornamented with figure-of-eight bands, and surmounted by an enclosed rosette, and flanked by winged griffons, one surmounted by a candelabra ornamented with tubular flowers, and the other surmounted by a candle branches flanking an urn, supporting calyx within figure-of-eight foliage, surmounted by an urn
Scale
to a rough scale
Signed and dated
- c1787
datable to c1787
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (325 x 479)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
IV
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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