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[20] Design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1767, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/35
Purpose
[20] Design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular mirror frame, ornamented with arabesques, rosettes, and anthemia, with an apron of acanthus leaves, a fan, and a festoon, and surmounted by arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes, festoons, a fan, and an anthemion
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Glass frame for the Drawing Room at Osterly / For Robert Child Esqr (underwritten in feint pencil) and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1767
Robt Adam Archt 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow (283 x 406)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 81
Tomlin, 1972, p. 45
Harris, 2001, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 81
Tomlin, 1972, p. 45
Harris, 2001, p. 164
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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