[1] Preliminary design for an overmantel mirror frame, c1787, not known to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - St Martin's Lane, number unknown, London: designs for mirror frames for Mr Hamilton, c1787 (7)
      - Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawings for an overmantel mirror frame, c1787, not known to have been executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/36

Purpose

[1] 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 a chimneypiece, surmounted by a circular frame, ornamented with figure-of-eight bands, a wreath, terms, festoons, an enclosed anthemion, and an eagle, and supported by winged griffons flanking an enclosed anthemion, with elaborate candelabra to either side, one of which feeds into an outer border to the frame

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Mr Hamilton / St Martins Lane / Pannel / Chimney

Signed and dated

c1787
datable to c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (325 x 479)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Harris, 1963, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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