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  • image SM Adam volume 3/47

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

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

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