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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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