[7] Design for an alternative pier glass for the bedroom, 1787, 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)
      - Preliminary designs and design for alternative pier glasses for the bedroom, 1787, not known to have been executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/91

Purpose

[7] Design for an alternative pier glass for the bedroom, 1787, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of two mirror frames. The mirror frame on the left-hand side is as Adam volume 3/36, but to scale. The right-hand mirror frame is rectangular, and ornamented with laurel leaf tips, with a rosette in each corner, and a rosette enclosed within a wreath on the base rail, and the frame has a central tablet at the top, surmounted by a flaming urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frames for Bed Chamber (in pencil)

Signed and dated

December 1787
Decr. 15t. 1787.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (477 x 296)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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