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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/46

Purpose

[57] Unfinished design for a pier glass frame for the state bedchamber, 1775

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame, ornamented with calyx, and anthemia, and surmounted by winged sphinxes, a medallion, rosettes, enclosed drops of calyx, ram masks, and putti flanking an urn, and with pencil-drawn annotations to the left-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Bed Chamber at Osterly

Signed and dated

  • May 1775
    Adelphi / 15t May 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (317 x 472)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 83
Tomlin, 1972, p. 63
Harris, 2001, p. 173
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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